Installation report 1 for beta 1
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Mon Nov 28 15:22:15 UTC 2005
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:05:10PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> I was one of those testing the first release of Ubuntu, before going back to
> when it was called "sounder" and the name "ubuntu" had not been cleared for
> use.
>
> I liked that program.
> They had daily builds, so there was every prospect that problems reported
> today were fixed tomorrow or the day after.
> There were many "betas" I just saw reference to "sounder 8" and as I
> recall there
> were warty betas and release candidates after that.
>
> To save download time, access was via rsync. It helped that only one CD
> image
> was involved, but it would still have worked well with a FC-sided DVD.
> The team
> didn't handle it as well as it might, at various times the name of the image
> changed. For maximum ease of use the images needed to have constant
> names and
> locations, so "latest-daily-build.iso" "latest-beta.iso" (once there is
> a beta)
There are already daily rawhide boot.iso's created, from which you can
do http/nfs/etc installs. (Basically everything except cd installs)
Dave
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