upgrade of beta1 to beta 2 worked fine Dell Dimension 9100 Intel pentium R dual 2.8GHz 4G mem Gforce 6800/PCIe/SS2
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:00 AM, < [email protected]> wrote: > Send ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-studio-devel digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. 13.10 tests - upgrade(image) (Len Ovens) > 2. Re: 13.10 tests - upgrade(image) (Len Ovens) > 3. Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Beta 2 call for testing (Ho Wan Chan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:34:32 -0700 (PDT) > From: Len Ovens <[email protected]> > To: Ubuntu Studio Development & Technical Discussion > <[email protected]> > Subject: [ubuntu-studio-devel] 13.10 tests - upgrade(image) > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII > > We have no new 32bit images just now, But the testing I have done looks > very good. > > For those testing upgrades: > The upgrade from the terminal works as expected, just follow the > instructions. > > However, The upgrade from iso image (which is much faster BTW), needs an > extra step before starting if you have more than one ubuntu installed on a > machine. For example I have /dev/sda1 is my working ubuntu partition and > /dev/sda6 is my testing partition. If I just follow the instructions as is > there will never be an option to upgrade where the instructions say they > should be. > > So before I start, I boot to the life image (or the testing partition if > there is something runable there) and on /dev/sda1 I create a directory > called offline (the name doesn't matter so long as it is unique and owned > by root) then I mv (move) boot, etc, vm* and init* into offline. > > While this is set this way you will not be able to boot the first > partition! don't try :) > > Now the upgrade (image) instructions should work fine. > > After you are finished testing, from the upgraded partition you need to > mv offline/* back into /dev/sda1 root directory. Then run: > sudo update-grub > > You should see that the system in sda1 is picked up and you should be able > to boot sda1... > > To make sda1 the default again :) (and this applies to other > upgrades/installs as well) boot to the partition you wish to be the > default partition and run: > sudo update-grub > sudo grub-install /dev/sda > > (assuming sda is where you boot from... in my case it is sdc) > > note if you have more than just the two ubuntu partitions you have to > disable all of them except the one you are upgrading as described above > for the upgrade(image) test or if you wish to do the upgrade for real. > > Smartboyhw, does this make sense? > > -- > Len Ovens > www.ovenwerks.net > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:25:18 -0700 (PDT) > From: Len Ovens <[email protected]> > To: Ubuntu Studio Development & Technical Discussion > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] 13.10 tests - upgrade(image) > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Len Ovens wrote: > > > We have no new 32bit images just now, But the testing I have done looks > very > > good. > > Beta images for both 32 and 64bit are in. > > There is testing to do... > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:37:29 +0800 > From: Ho Wan Chan <[email protected]> > To: "Ubuntu Studio Development & Technical Discussion" > <[email protected]>, Ubuntu Studio Users Help > and > Discussion <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Subject: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Beta 2 call for > testing > Message-ID: > <CA+2XN5+aWdij5Fgd6VeD_wDf=_ > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello Ubuntu Studio Developers, contributors and users, > > "Keep calm and test the images!" -- Ubuntu QA Team > > We are now close to our second and final beta release of Ubuntu Studio > 13.10 (Saucy Salamander), and we want YOU to test for us. > > http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/303/builds is the place > where > you follow the testcases and submit the results, simply choose "Ubuntu > Studio <insert_your_architecture>", and follow the testcases. If you want a > walkthrough, check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Walkthrough. > > There are not many changes from Beta 1 to Beta 2 (except that we fixed 4 > bugs about upgrading). Changes in features can be found at > > http://ubuntustudio.org/2013/09/ubuntu-studio-13-10-saucy-salamander-beta-1-released/ > . > So we want you to test the upgrades again, to see if there is any more > bugs. (Of course you can report bugs in images too:)) > > The images are always accessible at > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/dvd/current. > > For any inquiries, find us at [email protected] or > contact zequence/OvenWerks/smartboyhw in #ubuntustudio-devel on Freenode. > > Happy testing! > > Regards, > Howard Chan (smartboyhw) > Ubuntu Studio Release Manager > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/attachments/20130924/78f25548/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > -- > ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel > > > End of ubuntu-studio-devel Digest, Vol 77, Issue 20 > *************************************************** >
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