On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:53:54PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Brian, > > Brian Murray [2011-01-04 14:08 -0800]: > > I've recently discovered hundreds of bug reports regarding people trying > > to install drivers (bcmwl, fglrx, nvidia) on their Live USB version of > > Ubuntu and it failing[1]. > > There are two main reasons for this: > > - update-initramfs not working (http://launchpad.net/bugs/557023) > > - There is too little RAM on a live system to download, build, > install, and run large drivers like nvidia and fglrx. Therefore > these should be disabled on a live system. This is tracked in > http://launchpad.net/bugs/685017, and I'll fix it for alpha-2. > > It would still be nice to fix 557023 so that this at least works with > smaller drivers like broadcom-wl (this doesn't actually need > an initramfs update, I believe, but it might happen anyway). > > > [3] http://launchpad.net/bugs/696656 > > Duped.
This was an example of a whole class of bugs that have been reported in Launchpad. Is it also safe to make those duplicates of bug 685017? Thanks again, -- Brian Murray Ubuntu Bug Master
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