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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:56:00PM +0200, Ofir Klinger wrote:
> Last week I joined the nVidia graphics driver testers group.
> 
> As requested I opened a new partition on my hard drive and installed Ubuntu
> daily ISO on it using an USB stick (I made it using USB Creator).
> 
> I though to myself, are there any better ways of installing Ubuntu?
> Well, apparently, there are.

The USB environment is a bit unusual in some ways, so installing -fglrx
or -nvidia into a LiveUSB persistent storage space is not analogous to
installing into a regular hard drive installed environment.  And indeed
there are various bugs with that process which are particular to it, and
not relevant to -nvidia testing in general.

(For example, the driver has to update the initrd which in a USB Live
environment is stored on the drive in a different way than it would with
a regular install; we've seen install fail due to initrd being read
only, not having space on the usb drive to write initrd, etc. etc.)

These installation cases are certainly valid things to test in their own
right, but due to the different environment I think it's not going to be
up to snuff for driver testing.

(It sure would be nice if it was, since it's so much quicker and easier
than doing a full install.)

Bryce