[12:32] heh, amusing [12:33] joeyh's "hack" was serving wikipedia I am afraid ;-) [12:37] grin [12:37] unsuccessfully, I imagine [12:38] well unless people were looking for [[Syslog] ] ;-) [12:40] I guess I'll make it run on another port, and make our load balancer a bit more picky... === cr3 [n=marc@pdpc/supporter/bronze/cr3] has joined #ubuntu-installer === cr3 [n=marc@pdpc/supporter/bronze/cr3] has joined #ubuntu-installer === cjwatson [n=cjwatson@82-69-40-219.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk] has joined #ubuntu-installer === cjwatson [n=cjwatson@82-69-40-219.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk] has joined #ubuntu-installer === cjwatson [n=cjwatson@82-69-40-219.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk] has joined #ubuntu-installer === cr3 [n=marc@pdpc/supporter/bronze/cr3] has joined #ubuntu-installer === cr3 [n=marc@pdpc/supporter/bronze/cr3] has joined #ubuntu-installer === jerom1 [n=jeromeb@LSt-Amand-152-32-6-178.w82-127.abo.wanadoo.fr] has joined #ubuntu-installer [02:29] hello [02:45] how to load a kernel module in %pre ? it seems insmod or modprobe doesn't work ? [02:49] %pre is executed very early indeed. The modules you're trying to load might not be available yet. [02:49] What kind of modules? [02:50] cciss [02:50] in order to define dynamically size of partition [02:51] You can't load that in %pre. I suggest making your code to do that a preseed/early_command instead. [02:51] hmm [02:52] actually, wait, that won't work either ... [02:54] 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] 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] a partman script shouldn't need to load cciss, by the way; it should already be loaded by the time that runs === xm [n=xavierm@LAubervilliers-151-13-68-86.w217-128.abo.wanadoo.fr] has joined #ubuntu-installer [03:06] can you check my %pre here : http://sharengo.org/ks.cfg please ? [03:11] no, that's not right [03:11] you want something more like: [03:11] cat >/lib/partman/auto.d/10cciss < #! /bin/sh [03:11] if [ -f /var/lib/partman/initial_auto ] ; then exit 0; fi [03:11] list-devices disk >/tmp/disk-debug.txt [03:11] # whatever else you need to do in here [03:12] EOF [03:12] chmod +x /lib/partman/auto.d/10cciss [03:14] thank you very much of your assistance and your patience, I test [03:33] no problem; hope that works ... [04:09] 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] reordering the boot parameters so that ask_detect is earlier doesn't prompt anymore but other parameters get truncated :( [04:11] show me your boot parameters? they may not all be needed [04:12] 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] lose ramdisk_size=16417 root=/dev/ram rw and the spurious space [04:12] cheers [04:12] you might be able to shorten the URL by using a non-fully-qualified hostname? [04:13] oh, and preseed/url => url, debian-installer/locale => locale [04:13] there are aliases in place for those since edgy [04:14] that should do it [04:14] could you file a bug on preseed to add some aliases for console-setup? [04:15] cjwatson: sure, should I subscribe you to it? [04:15] I already get its bugmail automatically [04:15] (well, now, ubuntu-installer does, but that includes me) [04:31] 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] that's correct [04:33] you can probably just remove that; partman only lets you autopartition one disk anyway [04:34] and i can configure my second volume in a post with cfdisk ... === rrittenhouse [n=tad@cpe-76-188-35-66.neo.res.rr.com] has joined #ubuntu-installer === jerom1 [n=jeromeb@LSt-Amand-152-32-6-178.w82-127.abo.wanadoo.fr] has left #ubuntu-installer [] === allmanj [n=allmanj@66.249.86.140] has joined #ubuntu-installer [07:02] 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] I'm on the phone now and then have to go out to training, but later, sure [07:08] this is the right place [07:14] groovy - unfortunately i've to head home (i'm in ireland and this is the evening). But i'll drop back tomorrow. Thanks!