On running persistence. What is persistence? I'm stumped right now. The site's directions to running a live session persistence was to "create a partition on the disk." When trying to format my disk, I don't have the option of ext3. Am I supposed to reformat my disk and partition a mac drive to ext3?
How do you restart the live image into a persistence session? - John. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Jackson Doak <doak.jack...@gmail.com> wrote: > no sorry as he has tried it and still prefers windows. So I cannot test mac > > Jackson > > > On Friday, August 10, 2012, Phill Whiteside <phi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > Hi Jackson, > > as far as I know, there is no legal VM for amd64-mac system. There is > for the older PPC systems (G3, G4, G5) > > Maybe get him to start with Live CD, then install as side by side? Once > he sees the difference I'm sure he will be a convert :) > > Regards, > > Phill. > > On 9 August 2012 22:52, Jackson Doak <doak.jack...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > does the mac version work in a virtual machine? i have access to one but > windows is installed and my brother wont allow ubuntu to be put on. > > jackson > > > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Nicholas Skaggs < > nicholas.ska...@canonical.com> wrote: > > > > A special thanks to all of our testers this week! > > > > gregfaith, victor.zhou, redmar, larsnooden, carla-sella, michael-kroll, > doak-jackson, k1fri, sjskaggs, kate.stewart, fabiomarconi, smartboyhw, > lbsolost, robinc > > > > The status page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Cadence/Status) is > showing we still need some help on amd64+mac, along with some test for > wubi, and ARM. I'll be testing ARM tonight and tomorrow, those of you with > ARM hardware consider also pitching in a result this week if your able :-) > I know Tobias is still working on results for wubi as well, and I can help > with the cd boot helper tests. That just leaves us with the amd64+mac > builds to test. Does anyone have mac hardware who is willing to test an > install for this iso? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Nicholas > > > > P.S. I've seen bugs and reports that ubiquity is buggy and unstable in > todays build. If you find that to be true in testing, don't panic! File any > bugs you find and try to complete the install. If it fails, still report > it. A failed to install is still a valid result! > > > > > > On 08/08/2012 04:47 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: > > > > What I've taken to calling 'cadence' testing, is the testing of the > daily builds of isos (specifically those focused on the desktop and ubuntu) > over the course of a non-milestone week, with the intent of insuring the > mandatory testcases for those isos pass. I know this has been a difficult > thing to understand, and sadly, right now the isotracker doesn't allow us > to do this testing in a nice and easy to see way. We plan to fix this by > allowing you to better browse history but for now we'll have to work-around > the limitation (BTW, if anyone knows drupal and wishes to help land this > quicker, I would be happy to help set you up. We can always use more > developers!). > > > > I've put together a wiki page that I will update once a day this week > (about 1400 UTC, manually) with the targeted testcases and their status. > The page is located here. > > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Cadence/Status > > > > I hope this proves helpful to everyone, and as you can see we already > have results for many of the testcases. We need folks who have access to > ARM and MAC to also contribute a result for a testcase to help round us out. > > > > As you can see, I've placed a quick summary of our progress on each of > the isos and testcases at the top, followed by the raw results in a tabular > format of those who have tested. Please don't panic if that raw list is > missing some of your testing! I still see the results submitted from those > of you who have tested server, or alt images, or another flavor. For > brevity's sake on this page, it's filtered to only show the runs for the > isos above. > > > > I hope this helps and thank you for sticking with the testing on this. > ISO testing is going to continue to be something for all of us to iterate > upon and improve to make better. We as a community want to provide solid, > dependable results and good feedback, while still being mindful of our > efforts and time spent. Thanks, > > > > Nicholas > > > > -- > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > > > -- > Ubuntu-qa mailing list > Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa > > -- John Kim Ubuntu enthusiast l <http://epikvision.blogspot.com>ookjohn.com
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