Alpha 6 testing needed now!

[Jordan Mantha]

HI all,

I've been trying to get the new Edubuntu DVD ready for the Ubuntu
Alpha 6 release, the last alpha for Karmic. [0]  I was able to put all
the usual Edubuntu apps into the Livefs part of the DVD, however that
pushed the size of the DVD to 4.5GB . Since a regular DVD is 4.2 GB
and 4.5GB is a whole lot of downloading, I tried to shrink it as much
as I could by removing obvious .debs from the DVD that we're not
interested in right now (apache, software development tools, etc.).
This got us down to 3.2 GB.

In order for the Edubuntu Alpha 6 DVD to be release we have to perform
installation testing. The Ubuntu QA team's ISO tracker has the DVD
listing [1]. The link to the .iso there still points to the addon CD
so you'll need to get it from cdimage.ubuntu.com directly.[2] Make
sure to use the latest iso and note which one it is (in case of having
to rebuild the image). We need both i386 and amd64 testing today!!

-Jordan


[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseSchedule
[1] http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/build/edubuntu/all
[2] http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/dvd/