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| cjwatson | grr, everybody who asked questions that I can answer has left | 10:41 |
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| cjwatson | thom: setting mirror/suite to anything but the current release is unlikely to work in Ubuntu | 10:41 |
| cjwatson | there are no compatibility shims or anything and I've put no effort into keeping that working; the edgy installer for instance requires tasksel in main and customised for Ubuntu, which it wasn't in dapper | 10:42 |
| thom | ah, ok | 10:45 |
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| cr3 | I'm trying to use preseeding to erase the entire disk but it seems that I need to specify the whole string: Erase entire disk: SCSI5 (0,0,0) (sda) - 80.0 GB ATA ST380811AS | 02:39 |
| cr3 | is there a way to specify a more generic string so that the same preseed file can be used across several machines? | 02:39 |
| cr3 | weird, preseeded install took a fraction of the time to install compared to the kickstart install. trying again, just to make sure | 02:54 |
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| cjwatson | cr3: don't preseed that question - see the installation guide which describes how to preseed partman-auto more correctly | 06:41 |
| cjwatson | specifically partman-auto/disk | 06:41 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: I had tried that but it seems that the installer always prompts unless partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is defined | 06:45 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: give me a sec, I could make sure | 06:45 |
| cjwatson | what release is this? | 06:47 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: edgy | 06:48 |
| cjwatson | then just preseeding partman-auto/disk is definitely sufficient. make sure you've set it to the right value though (i.e. one of the device names in the output of parted_devices) | 06:49 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: if this is indeed a bug rather than a misconfiguration on my part, I could file a bug on malone and test it on dapper and feisty afterwards | 06:49 |
| cjwatson | (in feisty, you need to preseed partman-auto/method to regular as well) | 06:49 |
| cjwatson | I don't see a bug yet | 06:49 |
| cjwatson | if you can reproduce it with DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 and are sure the preseed file is correct, a bug report on partman-auto with the installer syslog and a copy of the preseed file would be good | 06:50 |
| cjwatson | (DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 on the kernel command line; that produces a trace of all the installer's debconf interaction in the syslog. very handy) | 06:51 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: thanks, specifying /dev/sda worked! I had tried the default value, /dev/discs/disc0/disc, without double checking that it actually existed. | 06:53 |
| cr3 | that seemed to be the only part which prevented me from using preseeding, so I'm currently installing herd 1 with kickstart but I'll revert that to preseeding this afternoon. | 06:55 |
| cjwatson | where was that listed as the default? | 06:56 |
| cjwatson | /dev/discs is obsolete in edgy | 06:56 |
| cjwatson | (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/no-more-devfs) | 06:56 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: I must've been looking at dapper documentation, I'm netinstalling that release as well :( | 07:00 |
| cjwatson | ah yes, quite important to use the right release's documentation for preseeding | 07:02 |
| cr3 | just diff'ing the very useful example files would've probably given me a quick indication | 07:03 |
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| mark | lol | 11:38 |
| mark | I had made it so that in early_command the debug logs webserver is started during every install | 11:39 |
| mark | so I was just reinstalling a squid server, turns out our load balancer pooled it during the install because the web server was up | 11:39 |
| mark | and probably returning 200 OK for anything | 11:40 |
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