Call for Release Candidate testing (again)

[Wenzhuo Zhang]

Just for the record: I have reported bug #109211 for the external CD writer
problem, and bug #109218 for the device ordering problem.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/109211
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/109218

Wenzhuo Zhang wrote:
> I am testing the desktop-i386 image on an old desktop machine right now.
> I've come across three problems so far:
> 
> 1. The feisty installation on my laptop fails to burn the image using an
> external USB Combo drive (Model: TEAC DW-224E-B). Neither the "Write to
> disc..." context menu facility nor the cdrecord (now wodim) command line
> works with the external combo drive any more. It's a sad regression since
> the previous Ubuntu releases work well with this combo drive.
> 
> 2. I chose the manual partition method. On the Edit a Partition window,
> the Mount Point drop-down menu was empty initially. Only after I typed
> in "/" and reopened the "Edit a Partition" window could it display a
> drop-down menu of possible choices.
> 
> 3. The desktop has two hard drives. One is connected to the motherboard
> as primary master, and the other is connected to a Promise Ultra100 TX2
> IDE controller card as tertiary master. The feisty live-cd recognizes
> the primary boot drive as /dev/sdb, and the tertiary master as /dev/sda.
> I am not sure if this could pose a problem when installing the Grub MBR.
> Let's see the result after the installer finishes its job later.
> 
> Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
>> After a heroic effort by the kernel team over the weekend the sata_nv 
>> kernel bugs that were haunting us are finally squashed. That leaves us a 
>> very small window for testing the Release Candidate images, so please 
>> help out if you can.
>>
>> The CD images to test are 20070415 and DVDs are 20070516. Get the images 
>> from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/
>>
>> Tracking information and md5sums can be found here as usual: 
>> https://www.stgraber.org/ubuntu/isotesting/
>>
>> Henrik
>>
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