Just for the record: I have reported bug #109211 for the external CD writer problem, and bug #109218 for the device ordering problem.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/109211 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/109218 Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: > I am testing the desktop-i386 image on an old desktop machine right now. > I've come across three problems so far: > > 1. The feisty installation on my laptop fails to burn the image using an > external USB Combo drive (Model: TEAC DW-224E-B). Neither the "Write to > disc..." context menu facility nor the cdrecord (now wodim) command line > works with the external combo drive any more. It's a sad regression since > the previous Ubuntu releases work well with this combo drive. > > 2. I chose the manual partition method. On the Edit a Partition window, > the Mount Point drop-down menu was empty initially. Only after I typed > in "/" and reopened the "Edit a Partition" window could it display a > drop-down menu of possible choices. > > 3. The desktop has two hard drives. One is connected to the motherboard > as primary master, and the other is connected to a Promise Ultra100 TX2 > IDE controller card as tertiary master. The feisty live-cd recognizes > the primary boot drive as /dev/sdb, and the tertiary master as /dev/sda. > I am not sure if this could pose a problem when installing the Grub MBR. > Let's see the result after the installer finishes its job later. > > Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: >> After a heroic effort by the kernel team over the weekend the sata_nv >> kernel bugs that were haunting us are finally squashed. That leaves us a >> very small window for testing the Release Candidate images, so please >> help out if you can. >> >> The CD images to test are 20070415 and DVDs are 20070516. Get the images >> from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ >> >> Tracking information and md5sums can be found here as usual: >> https://www.stgraber.org/ubuntu/isotesting/ >> >> Henrik >> > > > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
