ISO Testing Status

[John Kim]

Disk -> usb memory stick.

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:45 PM, John Kim <thinkndev at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.jackson at 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 <PhillW at 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.jackson at 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.skaggs at 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
>> >
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