Downloaded the Xubuntu Beta image, but Sabayon booted

Vincent imnotb at gmail.com
Sat Sep 29 08:54:26 UTC 2007


OK sorry guys it's my mistake. I just thought I'd better send this email
because it was really odd. Somehow my father still had Sabayon loaded. My
deepest apologies...

On 29/09/2007, Vincent <imnotb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Either this is a mistake on my side (which I fear it isn't) or somehow a
> Sabayon Linux image ended up on http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/gutsy/beta/
> .
>
> So what happened? Well, I downloaded the Xubuntu Gutsy beta image from [1]
> (i386 Desktop CD) and burned it onto a CD yesterday. Today I booted from
> that CD and all of a sudden I saw the Sabayon Linux boot menu. To be sure I
> booted it, and indeed, it was Sabayon Linux. Then I just now checked the
> image's MD5Sum which is the same as the one listed at [2].
>
> Now, I'm quite sure I downloaded the image from [1] (well, obviously,
> because its MD5Sum was correct). If it was a mistake from my side, it'll
> probably be that I selected the wrong image when I tried to burn it.
> However, I will have to check with my father because it was his PC I was
> burning it on and if a Sabayon Linux image exists there, then he is the one
> who will have downloaded that. He is asleep now however so I can't check
> yet. In any case, I've done a search through my own home directory and the
> image does not reside there (unless it's the one named
> xubuntu-7.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso).
>
> So, perhaps this is a mistake on my side, but I thought it would be better
> to doublecheck, so if anyone could try this out (either by burning the image
> from [3] to a CD and booting it or by running it in a Virtual Machine or
> something) I would be very relieved, because I do hope and think (though I'd
> be sincerely ashamed) that this is a mistake from my side.
>
> [1] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/gutsy/beta/
> [2] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/gutsy/beta/MD5SUMS
> [3]
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/gutsy/beta/xubuntu-7.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Vincent




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Vincent
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