Live CD / bug reporting (Re: new look installer... why?)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 07:49:47AM +0000, Sean Miller wrote:

> My two changes to the Ubuntu distribution would be...
> a) I'd add some automatic partitioning to the installer, similar to SuSE 
> and Fedora... if somebody already has Windows on there these two are 
> great at guiding them through getting a dual-boot setup. They will find 
> free space, suggest it's used etc. etc.... with Ubuntu I had to manually 
> change my grub config even to get it to put Windows on the start menu.

I agree; this is something we will discuss for the 5.10 release.

> b) I'd fix the "noscsi" issue that always seems to happen on my laptop
> with live CDs based on Debian (eg. Knoppix, Ubuntu etc.) -- in that if you
> don't manually add "noscsi" to the boot command then it gets halfway
> through and just "collapses"... I have given the live CD to several others
> and many of them have reported a crash halfway through. If this is the
> first impression then it doesn't help anybody. Surely there must be some
> way that these live CDs can prevent themselves from crashing/hanging?
> Maybe better error handling or something (?) -- wasn't an issue with the
> install, incidently, just with the Live CD.

The only way that bugs like these can be fixed is if users like you report
them.  If you give up without telling us, then we won't know that you have a
problem.

I would appreciate if you would download the latest live CD milestone
release for Hoary and test it:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hoary/array-4/

and if you encounter any problems, report them at
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/

-- 
 - mdz