[Bug 1025720] Re: Package cedarview-drm

2012-08-12 Thread Alan Searchwell
In July Intel released graphics drivers for Cedar Trail. There is a file available on the Intel web site with the file name cdv-gfx- drivers-1.0.1_bee.tar.bz2 and a date of July 6, 2012. It can be found by searching the Intel Download Center (http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Default.aspx?lang=eng)

[Bug 644573] [NEW] package linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive

2010-09-21 Thread Alan Searchwell
Public bug reported: I use windows loader to launch grub4dos and then load linux. To retain this method, I install ubuntu 9.04 along with grub first and then install ubuntu 10.04 over that without installing a boot loader. The boot loader is preserved from the previous installation. I then have

[Bug 644573] Re: package linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive

2010-09-21 Thread Alan Searchwell
** Attachment added: AlsaDevices.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/644573/+attachment/1619179/+files/AlsaDevices.txt ** Attachment added: AptOrdering.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/644573/+attachment/1619180/+files/AptOrdering.txt ** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt

[Bug 279371] Re: regression Suspend/Hibernate intrepid Gateway notebook ML6226B

2008-10-29 Thread Alan Searchwell
Gateway MX8741: 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo, 1024MB DDR2, Intel 943GML Chipset (GMA 950 graphics), rtl8187B wireless. Upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy and then immediately to Intrepid. Primary objective was to get the new Network Manager Applet 0.7.0, other wireless improvements and the ability to go

[Bug 132762] Re: [gutsy] Don't change UUID of existing ext3 partition when formatting it for install

2008-10-23 Thread Alan Searchwell
Similar problem here, I've got a Windows partition that I rarely boot into, a home partition, a root partition with Gutsy that I've been using all the time and another root partition that had was Hardy, now Intrepid. After installing Intrepid, I got the fsck message during boot: fsck.ext3:

[Bug 287539] Re: Manual partition mode should not mark existing swap partitions as use as swap

2008-10-23 Thread Alan Searchwell
Hernando, I found the following information at the paga at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-basicfilesystems . When formatting over the top of an existing swap partition, preserve its UUID to avoid leaving systems that use UUIDs in /etc/fstab without swap. So, I suspect that even if

[Bug 287539] Re: Manual partition mode should not mark existing swap partitions as use as swap

2008-10-23 Thread Alan Searchwell
You might find the discussion at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106209 interesting, in particular https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source /partman-basicfilesystems/+bug/106209/comments/31 , a comment by Colin Watson of the Ubuntu team. I want to add a commet of my own and would like to link to

[Bug 132762] Re: [gutsy] Don't change UUID of existing ext3 partition when formatting it for install

2008-10-23 Thread Alan Searchwell
Theodore, I stand corrected! I got the impression that converting an ext3 partition with 128-byte inodes to ext4 would be extremely challenging if at all possible and the statement reflects that. Alan -- [gutsy] Don't change UUID of existing ext3 partition when formatting it for install

[Bug 106209] Re: fsck Unable to resolve UUID

2008-10-23 Thread Alan Searchwell
This is not a bug that will affect newbies since, very few if any, will already have an installation of linux installed in another partition. As matter of fact, one has to be an OS junkie to have enough partitions defined to be installing a new version of linux when you've already got one

[Bug 288359] [NEW] installer should warn that a patched version of grub is needed for new ext3 file system with 256 bit inodes.

2008-10-23 Thread Alan Searchwell
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubiquity I have two root partitions defined on my disk plus a home partition as follows: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 11165 93578317 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda211661295

[Bug 287547] Re: Guided Partitioning: Ubiquity should not offer to resize partitions further than it is possible to resize them without losing data.

2008-10-22 Thread Alan Searchwell
I have made sme comments at the following link that I hope could provide some solutions to the problems of partitioning: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/268115/comments/1 Alan -- Guided Partitioning: Ubiquity should not offer to resize partitions further than it is

[Bug 268115] Re: stronger warning when using automatic partitioning

2008-10-22 Thread Alan Searchwell
This is my first contribution but as one who has benefited from all the fantastic work that goes on around here I feel that the least I can do is to try and offer something back. There are basically four types of installation that users want to do: 1)Trial - user just wants to try and see how

[Bug 287539] Re: Manual partition mode should not mark existing swap partitions as use as swap

2008-10-22 Thread Alan Searchwell
I have used the Intrepid Beta CD to do 3 installations and although the partitioner did mark the existing swap partition with use as swap, the format this partition box was unchecked. As a matter of fact, in one of the installations I was able to format the root partition using other means, then