[12:32] <cjwatson> heh, amusing
[12:33] <mark> joeyh's "hack" was serving wikipedia I am afraid ;-)
[12:37] <cjwatson> grin
[12:37] <cjwatson> unsuccessfully, I imagine
[12:38] <mark> well unless people were looking for [[Syslog] ]  ;-)
[12:40] <mark> I guess I'll make it run on another port, and make our load balancer a bit more picky...
[02:29] <jerom1> hello
[02:45] <jerom1> how to load a kernel module in %pre ? it seems insmod or modprobe doesn't work ?
[02:49] <cjwatson> %pre is executed very early indeed. The modules you're trying to load might not be available yet.
[02:49] <cjwatson> What kind of modules?
[02:50] <jerom1> cciss
[02:50] <jerom1>  in order to define dynamically size of partition
[02:51] <cjwatson> You can't load that in %pre. I suggest making your code to do that a preseed/early_command instead.
[02:51] <cjwatson> hmm
[02:52] <cjwatson> actually, wait, that won't work either ...
[02:54] <cjwatson> I think your best approach is, in your %pre script, to write out a script called /lib/partman/auto.d/10cciss (or something like that) to do the work; make sure it's executable and that you have "if [ -f /var/lib/partman/initial_auto ] ; then exit 0; fi" near the top of the script so that it only runs once
[02:55] <cjwatson> Could you file a bug on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kickseed/+filebug saying that it would be useful to have an easy way to run scripts just before partitioning in Kickstart?
[02:55] <cjwatson> a partman script shouldn't need to load cciss, by the way; it should already be loaded by the time that runs
[03:06] <jerom1> can you check my %pre here : http://sharengo.org/ks.cfg please ?
[03:11] <cjwatson> no, that's not right
[03:11] <cjwatson> you want something more like:
[03:11] <cjwatson> cat >/lib/partman/auto.d/10cciss <<EOF
[03:11] <cjwatson> #! /bin/sh
[03:11] <cjwatson> if [ -f /var/lib/partman/initial_auto ] ; then exit 0; fi
[03:11] <cjwatson> list-devices disk >/tmp/disk-debug.txt
[03:11] <cjwatson> # whatever else you need to do in here
[03:12] <cjwatson> EOF
[03:12] <cjwatson> chmod +x /lib/partman/auto.d/10cciss
[03:14] <jerom1> thank you very much of your assistance and your patience, I test
[03:33] <cjwatson> no problem; hope that works ...
[04:09] <cr3> feisty herd 1 netinstall prompts to detect the keyboard even though I specify console-setup/ask_detect=false in the boot parameters. syslog says GET console-setup/ask_detect, 0 true. /proc/cmdline says console-setup/ask_, so it seems the boot parameters get truncated.
[04:11] <cr3> reordering the boot parameters so that ask_detect is earlier doesn't prompt anymore but other parameters get truncated :(
[04:11] <cjwatson> show me your boot parameters? they may not all be needed
[04:12] <cr3> append vga=normal initrd=ubuntu-installer/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16417 root=/dev/ram rw  -- DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 preseed/url=http://midir.certification.canonical.com/feisty/i386/preseed.txt debian-installer/locale=en_US console-setup/ask_detect=false console-setup/layoutcode=us
[04:12] <cjwatson> lose ramdisk_size=16417 root=/dev/ram rw and the spurious space
[04:12] <cr3> cheers
[04:12] <cjwatson> you might be able to shorten the URL by using a non-fully-qualified hostname?
[04:13] <cjwatson> oh, and preseed/url => url, debian-installer/locale => locale
[04:13] <cjwatson> there are aliases in place for those since edgy
[04:14] <cjwatson> that should do it
[04:14] <cjwatson> could you file a bug on preseed to add some aliases for console-setup?
[04:15] <cr3> cjwatson: sure, should I subscribe you to it?
[04:15] <cjwatson> I already get its bugmail automatically
[04:15] <cjwatson> (well, now, ubuntu-installer does, but that includes me)
[04:31] <jerom1> it's works, but i have anothe probem when i use : part ... --ondisk=cciss/c0d1, it seems ondisk is not supported, can you confirm ?
[04:33] <cjwatson> that's correct
[04:33] <cjwatson> you can probably just remove that; partman only lets you autopartition one disk anyway
[04:34] <jerom1> and i can configure my second volume in a post with cfdisk ...
[07:02] <allmanj> i was just on #ubuntu asking about this but then spotted this channel. Can anyone here help me with customising debian-installer so that it doesn't scan a mirror?
[07:08] <cjwatson> I'm on the phone now and then have to go out to training, but later, sure
[07:08] <cjwatson> this is the right place
[07:14] <allmanj> groovy - unfortunately i've to head home (i'm in ireland and this is the evening). But i'll drop back tomorrow. Thanks!