On Tuesday, January 04, 2011 05:08:28 pm Brian Murray wrote: > 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]. Part of the large volume is due to the fact > that the bug reports are automatically reported by apport as package > installation failures. When looking at these bug reports I had a couple > of questions. > > Is installing drivers on a Live USB version of Ubuntu something that is > supported? > > It seems to me that there are a lot of people who think it should be and > I believe it would a useful way for people to test the development > release of Ubuntu and the latest drivers. If it isn't though we should > stop the automatic reporting of this classification of bug reports[2]. > > There are also some bug reports[3] that have empty > DpkgTerminalLog.txt[4] attachments. > > How did this happen and can it be fixed? > > Can these be marked as duplicates of bug 557023? (Provided they are on > live media and about installing drivers of course.) > > > [1] http://launchpad.net/bugs/557023 > [2] I've written bug patterns for a couple of packages for this > [3] http://launchpad.net/bugs/696656 > [4] http://launchpadlibrarian.net/61549804/DpkgTerminalLog.txt > > Thanks,
I've done this successfully with bcmwl on my Dell Mini 10v a few times with Lucid and probably close to a dozen times with Maverick (including while sitting in a UDS plenary when I messed up my system and was trying to get back to something usable). I understand that video support might be hard, but I think that in many cases you need to network to fix things so supporting wireless drivers is an important use case. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
