[xubuntu-users] Xubuntu Feisty - Herd 3 install question

[Jim Campbell]

I brought up the matter once again on #xubuntu, and PuMpErNiCkLe gave me
some more detail on this.  I guess that Ubuntu is moving towards SCSI
emulation (?) with their drive setup scheme now (??), and that this was - in
fact - a feature.

I checked with a few other people on IRC - members of my GLUG here in
Chicago - and they thought this made sense.  They also said that I couldn't
muck up my drives by giving this a try.

I used the alternate install cd, and other than the long wait times to do
stuff like start up the partitioner and detect the hardware (known bugs at
this point . . . ), the installation went just fine.

On 2/6/07, Adam Miller <maxamillion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't personally know anything of a new naming scheme for feisty, I have
> always been under the impression that sda means SATA or SCSI (and as it
> appears to be usb thumb drive also) .... I really don't think it would fry
> your drive, but better to stay on the side of caution.
>
> Do you remember who told you it was a naming scheme in the irc channels?
> Depending on who said it, it might very well be a completely valid statement
> (certain people who are on irc seem to know these things because they are
> more closely involved with the development cycle than others.
>
> Sorry I don't have a good solid answer for you, I am about to start Herd 3
> testing myself today so I might have some more insight into this later.
>
> -Adam
>
> On 2/6/07, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Last night I went to install Xubuntu 7.04 Herd 3 on a spare hard drive
> > that I have for testing, and (aside from the long time it took to detect
> > hardware - which I had read was a known bug) things were progressing fine
> > until I came to the stage of hard drive partitioning.
> >
> > The partitioner showed my drives as sda and sdb instead of hda and hdb
> > as they did with Edgy Eft and all prior Xubuntu releases.  Not wanting to
> > fry my hard drives, I aborted the installation.  I mentioned this on
> > #xubuntu on IRC, and someone said that this new drive coding/setup is a new
> > feature of the installation, and is not a bug.
> >
> > Does anyone have any background on this?  Thanks!
> >
> > Jim
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