Karmic (Beta) Test Installs

[Tom H]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:14 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> As mentioned in the "Grub 2 in Jaunty/Karmic can break double boot
> configuration" thread, I decided to try a few different test installs of
> Karmic Beta. I figured that it's better to start a new thread (blog?)
> regarding the tests.
>
> Test machine: 1Ghz/384Mb, hd0,0 (sdb1) = jaunty (fully updated) - 10G
> drive, hd1,0 (sda1) = hardy (fully updated) - 20G drive.
>
> 1. First test involved _upgrading_ the jaunty drive (10G) to karmic beta
> using:
>
> To upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 on a desktop system, press Alt+F2 and type
> in "update-manager -d" (without the quotes) into the command box. Update
> Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release '9.10' is
> available. Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.
>
> went well, albeit slow:
>
>  26 packages are going to be removed. 268 new packages are going to be
> installed. 949 packages are going to be upgraded.
>  You have to download a total of 659M. This download will take about 1
> hour 40 minutes with your connection.
>
> Overall took about 3 hours. grub 1 (0.97-29ubuntu56) is still installed,
> but grub-common is now grub 2 (1.97~beta3-1ubuntu7). So, menu.lst is
> still available & the drive is still ext3. Other OS (Ubuntu hardy 8.04)
> on the second drive still boots without issues.
>
> 2. Second test involves installing karmic beta via the liveCD on hd0,0
> (sdb1) over the top of the karmic beta installed in test #1.
>
> - filled in all the bits regarding timezone etc., & at the partition
> screen the liveCD defaults to sdb (hardy). I selected the option to
> instead install over sda (karmic) using the entire drive. CD whirs &
> does it's thing for awhile & eventually I get a 'Low Disk Space' popup
> stating "This computer has only 0 bytes disk space remaining". Huh? Well
> my options are: Examine or Ignore. The first time through (I'm on my
> second attempt) I selected 'Examine' and that proved worthless as baobab
> (Disk Usage Analyzer) crashed. So, this time I select 'Ignore'. That
> drops me to the liveCD desktop... nothing follows. Have to hard reboot
> the machine as there is no disk space left to even adjust the display
> (karmic thinks my display looks great at 1280x960 so you can't see the
> top panel).
>
> One would think that the liveCD would have followed the method in
> jaunty's liveCD and gone ahead and formated & re-partitioned hd0,0
> (sda). I gave up.
>
> 3. Third test involves using the karmic beta Alternate CD (something
> that I am quite familiar with from all my other Ubuntu distros).
>
> o life is good again (almost).
>
> - I get to select which of my 2 ethernet nics I want to use for the
> primary network interface, although DHCP doesn't seem to work (it does,
> I control & configure my router just fine), but the alt cd allows me to
> config the network manually, which I prefer anyway.
>
> - I can manually select & partition sda (hd0,0 karmic beta from #1),
> select ext4 (I did for this test case), ext3, etc., etc. I elected to
> use Guided partitioning & use the entire drive.

I think that you mean sdb above.


> - when finished partitioning, I get a '[!] Configuring grub-pc' window
> telling me that other operating systems have been detected (Ubuntu
> 8.04.3 LTS in this case) & advising that if all have been detected,
> "then it should be safe to install the boot loader to the master boot
> record of your first hard drive. When your computer boots, you will be
> able to chost to load one of these operating systems or your new system.
> Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record?"
> I selected the default 'Yes'.
>
> o Installation finished without issues/errors. Reboots. Grub comes up &
> shows the karmic install, but (as with the previous clean install - see
> the previous "[Karmic] Heads up" thread from 9/23/2009) it doesn't show
> the sdb (hd1,0) hardy drive/install at all.
>
> Note: I still get the  'address space collision on of device
> [0xfc9c0000-0xfc9dffff]' on the system
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/424142),
>
> I continue to boot & login... the showing of usernames at the gdm login
> screen still bothers me. The screen is set for the silly 1280x960 so I
> have to add the Menu to the bottom panel so that I can change the
> setting to 1024x768/70hz... I doubt that new users will know how to do
> that btw.
>
> I can see the other hardy drive in Places|20 GB Filesystem, but of
> course can't boot into it until I modify Grub 2 as pointed out in the
> "Grub 2 in Jaunty/Karmic can break double boot configuration"
> and
> "[Karmic] Heads up"
> threads. So, gentle karmic testers, a read through those threads are
> worth the effort :-)
>
> I'll try some more scenarios tomorrow if I have a chance, but for the
> time being:
>
> 1. Updgrade from jaunty via the network = +1 (works without issues).
> 2. Install from liveCD = -1 (wouldn't recommend it)
> 3. Install from Alternate CD = +.75 (works with some grub 2 issues).


Your (2) experience is strange. I have installed Karmic twice from the
live CD without a hitch on 10gb partitions. Did you select the "free
space" option?