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Re: image changes in ubuntu quantal (12.10)

 

On Saturday 25 August 2012 22:19:30 Tomáš Vaculín wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
> 
> I'm getting troubles with installation...
> The installation failing during unpacking filesystem.
> More info in attached photo.

looks like your installation tarball is corrupt. Make sure to check the md5sum 
after downloading.

Marc

> 
> 
> 2012/8/25 Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > hi,
> > 
> > as some might have noticed, ubuntu dropped the support for 2D desktops
> > from its default images, hardware needs to either be capable to do
> > GL/GLES out of the box or needs to be able to run llvmpipe as a fallback
> > mechanism ...
> > 
> > llvmpipe does not run on arm and the nvidia-tegra situation isnt golden
> > either, so a change for the ac100 images was required as we cant run the
> > default ubuntu images anymore ...
> > 
> > so i made a decision and switched the images from ubuntu-desktop to
> > lubuntu-desktop on last thursday for quantal under the assumption that
> > the smallest and lightest image in the ubuntu family will give us the
> > best end user results on the ac100 ...
> > 
> > with this change we now have a new download location at [1]. the set of
> > shipped default applications as well as the image size differ massively
> > 
> >  from former releases and you might be pleased to hear that the new
> > 
> > download is only ~400M big :)
> > 
> > please help testing the images if you consider a new installation on
> > your ac100 anyway :) we specifically need testing help around milestone
> > releases [2]
> > 
> > ciao
> > 
> >         oli
> > 
> > [1] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/daily-preinstalled/current/
> > [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseSchedule
> > 
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