It's fine for now, because using Hardy Server means I can allow automatic kernel upgrades and trust that my system will automatically recover correctly from a reboot (I'm using it as a file/web/version control server). But if it's ever convenient, I would appreciate some tips for getting the alternate version of Lucid to boot, for future reference.
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Robert Baptista <[email protected]>wrote: > I've booted the alternate version of the installer for 10.04. Sorry, I > didn't mention it earlier I noticed you were only asking for the server and > netboot versions, which I only got to work once I think and it wasn't very > reliable and repeatable. > > Alternate version will boot fine however. If you want more info on > alternate I'll have to check my flash drive to remember how I did it since > it was quite a few months back. > > Robert > > > On 9/15/2010 5:02 PM, Dylan Vassallo wrote: > > I ended up going with Hardy (8.04) over Jaunty (9.04) because Jaunty's > end-of-life occurs this October, while Hardy is supported until April 2011 > for the desktop version and until April 2013 (!) for the server version, > which I use. However, I'm not really sure what "supported" means; I'm > guessing it has to do with security updates and backports. > > If anyone is able to boot the alternate, server, or netboot versions of > Lucid (10.04), I'd greatly appreciate hearing about how they did it. I've > only had luck with the standard desktop version. > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Bruce E <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I stuck with 9.04 because, as Robert mentioned, this was the last >> Ubuntu version that used grub (rather than grub2). Since this was all >> new to me when I started, I figured that I'd start with the "tried and >> true". I'd like to try installing 10.04 at some point, but I'm not >> really sure what new features/improvements have been made to justify >> the effort. I think that MythVideo has been improved (which I am also >> using with the atv, so there is some motivation there), but I don't >> really think there's been many improvements to the TV watching >> interface itself. Hopefully, someone will correct me on this if I >> mistaken. If you tackle it, please let me know any lessons learned. >> Good luck! >> >> -- >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en >> > > -- > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en > > -- > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en > -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en
