Ubuntu 7.04 Beta released [LWN.net]

Ubuntu 7.04 Beta released

Posted Mar 24, 2007 22:52 UTC (Sat) by BugLess (guest, #43869)
Parent article: Ubuntu 7.04 Beta released

Pathetic.

Dual boot system here with 4 HDs. Two EIDE with NTFS spanning whole drives and two SATA with NTFS and ext3 partition mix on them. Not very standard? So what? Who cares? It is a legitimate situation. One would think that "alternate" disk would handle it bit better.

Guess what? Both desktop and alternate disk image installers are attempting to resize NTFS partition spanning disk that BIOS considers "first". Hello ! Anybody home? I understand it is suppose to be *x for dummies but there is limits to dumbing things down. Even windows installer does not try to shrink ext3 partition if there is one in a way of it. Ouch! That must hurt, windows installer smarter !

RHEL, MD, OpenSUSE to name the few throw detected disks/partitions for choice of use for their installations.

Is Ubuntu Linspiring or inspiring to be the big boys distro? Latter will not happen with dumbing things down, that is for sure.

Greg

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You need to reset your expectations

Posted Mar 25, 2007 3:47 UTC (Sun) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

Configurations that aren't tested tend not to work. You have multiple disks and multiple NTFS partitions, a somewhat unusual setup. You've found a bug. Congratulations, file a bug report so that it can be fixed. Drop the 'Hello, anybody home?' attitude, especially since you aren't paying a dime.

You need to reset your expectations

Posted Mar 25, 2007 12:10 UTC (Sun) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

Not only is the GP not paying a dime, but he's complaining about a beta -- the whole point of which is, yes, it could be buggy but is useful enough for wider use by the brave. He could have been a useful beta tester, by trying it out and filing a bug report, but instead he chooses to whine on LWN. Nice.

You need to reset your expectations

Posted Mar 25, 2007 20:53 UTC (Sun) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

I've found that d-i makes some silly assumptions about disk layouts. I'm surprised at this, given that d-i has been around the block a number of times. I loved being told "no operating systems were found on your disk" despite having four installed (solarid, fbsd, obsd, netbsd).

Still, it has always told me what it was going to do, and allowed me to make my own mind up about its actions. I consider it well behaved, if sometimes a bit unhelpful. Now that I think about it, it is in keeping with the Debian experience ;-)