On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:01:03AM -0800, Joseph Areeda wrote: > Greetings all, > > I am retired from a career in software development and medical > research. I've been using Unix since 1983 (at least that's the first > comment in my .cshrc file) and Ubuntu for about a year. I like Ubuntu > and would like to give back a little by participating in QA and perhaps > a bit of coding. > > I've been reading Wiki's and this mailing list, signed up for the mentor > thing, but that seems slow moving, so let's try this list. I need some > help or focus to get started. > > I've read that testing on a virtual machine is not as good as a hardware > install, but it seems to a good place to start with an alpha release, > especially one like Natty which has extensive UI changes.
One can do lots of testing in a virtual machine and we welcome any help! > I thought I'd start with VirtualBox and load my favorite packages and > get the feel of it before I loaded it onto hardware but I can't seem to > get it to load. I'm running 10.04 LTS (Linux jsa 2.6.32-29-generic > #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 11 20:52:10 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux) on a > laptop (I5 4Gb) and a desktop (AMD Phenom X6 16GB). I downloaded the > latest Vbox from Oracle (4.04). I use zsync to update a few times over > the last week, they all behave the same. > > The install iso boots but never makes it past the first screen > "Preparing to Install Ubuntu", attached is the VM log, if anyone can see > what I'm missing I'd appreciate it. As mentioned in another post you've certainly hit a bug here. > I can run Meerkat (Linux meerkat 2.6.35-27-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Tue > Feb 22 20:25:29 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux) in a VM with the same > settings. I've tried a bunch of different ones and both 32 and 64 bit > versions. You could test the distribution upgrade process and then be running the development release that way. You'd need to use 'update-manager -d' to get update manager to check for the development release though. In case you didn't run across it here is some documentation regarding testing - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing. -- Brian Murray Ubuntu Bug Master
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