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You need to reset your expectations

Posted Mar 25, 2007 3:47 UTC (Sun) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Ubuntu 7.04 Beta released by BugLess
Parent article: Ubuntu 7.04 Beta released

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.

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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 ;-)