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Re: Join Ubuntu Oneiric Beta 2 Laptop Testing

 

I won't be able to swap my laptop's harddrive, I only have one. I will use
the liveCD amd64 to test. Then use the 32bit liveCD.

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 11:16 AM, chris hermansen <clhermansen@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Dani, the instructions on the testing page are pretty explicit NOT to use a
> virtual machine.
>
> What works for me is to have a spare hard drive for testing. At least on my
> old Toshiba and Dell, it only takes five minutes to swap.
>
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:42 AM, <danisoufi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello, as always said, this is a beta version and you shouldn't install it
>> on your primary pc. i suggest that you install a virtual machine like
>> vmware, virtualbox or what ever, and test ubuntu from their.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dani
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Gesendet von meinem HP TouchPad
>> ------------------------------
>> Am 24.09.2011 15:47 schrieb Aakash Sharma <aakash.y.sharma@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> i do have a laptop running 11.04 and i'm willing to test for 11.10 beta.
>> however, is there a way to secure things so that if anything goes wrong, my
>> data + settings for 11.04 remain the same?
>>
>> it's my primary laptop, so i can't afford to loose it for more than 2 days
>> and i need a way to get things back to normal.
>>
>> i appreciate ubuntu n everyone working on it.
>>
>> ~aakash
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Sergio Zanchetta <primes2h@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> Oneiric Beta 2 is out now and we ask everyone on the QA team to
>>> participate in the laptop testing, confirming positive/negative results
>>> and
>>> checking for regressions from previous milestones.
>>>
>>> The procedures for testing your laptop and reporting results are
>>> explained on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Laptop/Procedures
>>>
>>> You can start downloading the image at
>>> http://releases.ubuntu.com/oneiric/
>>>
>>> Test results will be tracked on
>>> http://laptop.qa.ubuntu.com/
>>>
>>> You may have accounts on the tracker from last time. Please register
>>> if you are new to this.
>>>
>>> Please let us know if you have any questions, we will coordinate
>>> testing in #ubuntu-testing on freenode.
>>>
>>> Thanks and happy testing!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sergio Zanchetta
>>> https://launchpad.net/~primes2h
>>>
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>
> C'est ma façon de parler.
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