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

[Adam Miller]

Glad to hear that everything went well and PuMpErNiCkLe is a very reliable
knowledgeable community memeber so its good that you two were able to talk
and clear things up.

-Adam

On 2/11/07, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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