[ubuntu-studio-devel] ubuntu-studio-devel Digest, Vol 77, Issue 20

Tue Sep 24 15:02:54 UTC 2013

upgrade of beta1 to beta 2 worked fine

Dell Dimension 9100 Intel pentium R dual 2.8GHz 4G mem
Gforce 6800/PCIe/SS2


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>    1.  13.10 tests - upgrade(image) (Len Ovens)
>    2. Re:  13.10 tests - upgrade(image) (Len Ovens)
>    3.  Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Beta 2 call for testing (Ho Wan Chan)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:34:32 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net>
> To: Ubuntu Studio Development & Technical Discussion
>         <ubuntu-studio-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: [ubuntu-studio-devel] 13.10 tests - upgrade(image)
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> We have no new 32bit images just now, But the testing I have done looks
> very good.
>
> For those testing upgrades:
> The upgrade from the terminal works as expected, just follow the
> instructions.
>
> However, The upgrade from iso image (which is much faster BTW), needs an
> extra step before starting if you have more than one ubuntu installed on a
> machine. For example I have /dev/sda1 is my working ubuntu partition and
> /dev/sda6 is my testing partition. If I just follow the instructions as is
> there will never be an option to upgrade where the instructions say they
> should be.
>
> So before I start, I boot to the life image (or the testing partition if
> there is something runable there) and on /dev/sda1 I create a directory
> called offline (the name doesn't matter so long as it is unique and owned
> by root) then I mv (move) boot, etc, vm* and init* into offline.
>
> While this is set this way you will not be able to boot the first
> partition! don't try :)
>
> Now the upgrade (image) instructions should work fine.
>
> After you are finished testing, from the upgraded partition you need to
> mv offline/* back into /dev/sda1 root directory. Then run:
> sudo update-grub
>
> You should see that the system in sda1 is picked up and you should be able
> to boot sda1...
>
> To make sda1 the default again :) (and this applies to other
> upgrades/installs as well) boot to the partition you wish to be the
> default partition and run:
> sudo update-grub
> sudo grub-install /dev/sda
>
> (assuming sda is where you boot from... in my case it is sdc)
>
> note if you have more than just the two ubuntu partitions you have to
> disable all of them except the one you are upgrading as described above
> for the upgrade(image) test or if you wish to do the upgrade for real.
>
> Smartboyhw, does this make sense?
>
> --
> Len Ovens
> www.ovenwerks.net
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:25:18 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net>
> To: Ubuntu Studio Development & Technical Discussion
>         <ubuntu-studio-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] 13.10 tests - upgrade(image)
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> On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Len Ovens wrote:
>
> > We have no new 32bit images just now, But the testing I have done looks
> very
> > good.
>
> Beta images for both 32 and 64bit are in.
>
> There is testing to do...
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:37:29 +0800
> From: Ho Wan Chan <smartboyhw at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu Studio Development & Technical Discussion"
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> Subject: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Beta 2 call for
>         testing
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> Hello Ubuntu Studio Developers, contributors and users,
>
> "Keep calm and test the images!" -- Ubuntu QA Team
>
> We are now close to our second and final beta release of Ubuntu Studio
> 13.10 (Saucy Salamander), and we want YOU to test for us.
>
> http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/303/builds is the place
> where
> you follow the testcases and submit the results, simply choose "Ubuntu
> Studio <insert_your_architecture>", and follow the testcases. If you want a
> walkthrough, check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Walkthrough.
>
> There are not many changes from Beta 1 to Beta 2 (except that we fixed 4
> bugs about upgrading). Changes in features can be found at
>
> http://ubuntustudio.org/2013/09/ubuntu-studio-13-10-saucy-salamander-beta-1-released/
> .
> So we want you to test the upgrades again, to see if there is any more
> bugs. (Of course you can report bugs in images too:))
>
> The images are always accessible at
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/dvd/current.
>
> For any inquiries, find us at ubuntu-studio-devel at lists.ubuntu.com or
> contact zequence/OvenWerks/smartboyhw in #ubuntustudio-devel on Freenode.
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> Happy testing!
>
> Regards,
> Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
> Ubuntu Studio Release Manager
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