Installation report 1 for beta 1

[Dave Jones]

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