[01:22] <Boxxertrumps> i have ubuntu finally!
[01:24] <Boxxertrumps> but for some reason it goes to cmd line with batch commands...
[01:26] <Boxxertrumps> any ideas?
[01:33] <cjwatson> that means it failed to install the desktop environment for some reason; get /var/log/installer/syslog to me in a bug report (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+filebug) and I may be able to help
[01:33] <cjwatson> (or on second thoughts, maybe paste.ubuntu-nl.org it or something ...)
[01:34] <Boxxertrumps> no var/log in ubuntu?
[01:34] <cjwatson> sure is
[01:34] <cjwatson> starts with a / though
[01:34] <Boxxertrumps> nothing there
[01:34] <Boxxertrumps> onesec, ill get screenshot...
[01:35] <cjwatson> you have about two minutes until my wife drags me away :)
[01:38] <Boxxertrumps> http://boxxer.mooo.com/ubuntu.jpg
[01:38] <cjwatson> um, you used the Windows-based installer or something?
[01:38] <Boxxertrumps> i tired toi look at the .img files with bbnote, if your wondering about the icons
[01:38] <Boxxertrumps> yes, i used the windows based one
[01:39] <cjwatson> I'm sorry, I have no involvement with that and can't support it
[01:39] <cjwatson> I'm not sure whom to contact, but perhaps they provide an e-mail address
[01:39] <cjwatson> as far as I know the developers don't hang out here
[01:39] <Boxxertrumps> oh... mkay
[01:39] <cjwatson> .img files are probably disk images and you'd need to mount them somehow to get at log files
[01:39] <Boxxertrumps> thanks, ill look for another channel
[01:40] <cjwatson> best of luck
[01:40] <cjwatson> FWIW, the official installers we support are on the CD images on releases.ubuntu.com
[01:40] <cjwatson> those ones I can help with, although not now - aforementioned being dragged off :)
[01:41] <Boxxertrumps> seeya
[08:57] <CIA-4> migration-assistant: evand * r35 migration-assistant/ (6 files in 2 dirs): Mostly finished OE account import, LP bugfixes
[03:25] <cr3> what does the following line mean for the partman-auto/expert_recipe string: 40 50 100 ext3
[03:53] <cjwatson> minimum size 40 MB, maximum size 100 MB, priority 50 MB (that's used to determine relative sizes to allocate if more space is available), use ext3
[03:53] <cjwatson> see doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt in the debian-installer source package for a complete specification
[03:57] <secureboot_> looks like i have to change the kernel image on the ubuntu install cd (server or alternate)
[03:58] <secureboot_> http://dsplabs.utt.ro/~juve/blog/index.cgi/01147559232 is what i've found
[03:58] <secureboot_> except i dont' see linux-kernel-di-i386-2.6 anywhere
[03:58] <secureboot_> is there some equivalent or replacement?
[04:04] <cjwatson> our kernel package does that directly
[04:05] <cjwatson> if you start with our kernel package and use the regular Debian-style build system then you'll get both debs and udebs out the other end (eventually)
[04:11] <secureboot_> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=22999
[04:11] <secureboot_> that's the best i've found - thanks cjwatson
[04:11] <secureboot_> is it possible to use a totally custom kernel, with no ubuntu patches?  like 2.6.20?
[04:12] <secureboot_> i do seem to see a kernel-source that is installable for my custom kernels
[04:13] <secureboot_> my biggest problem is that i dont' see any instructions for how to go from the .debs/.udebs to having a CD that boots, other than netinstall
[04:42] <cjwatson> secureboot_: er, maybe, but for obvious reasons I've never tested it :)
[04:42] <secureboot_> cjwatson: obvious reasons?
[04:42] <cjwatson> why would I spend time on non-Ubuntu kernels?
[04:43] <secureboot_> cjwatson: ah - i figured someone might have needed to build a newer kernel at some point
[04:43] <cjwatson> they get to try it themselves :-)
[04:43] <cjwatson> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization may help
[04:43] <cjwatson> you can set up debian-cd but that's Hard Work
[04:45] <secureboot_> cjwatson: ah - that's how to take the .deb and .udebs and make a CD, rather than building the monolithic image?
[04:53] <cjwatson> yeah
[04:53] <secureboot_> cjwatson: or can you just copy the udebs and debs over to an extracted cd directory, copy them in, do the regeneration of packages/release/md5sum and boot?
[04:54] <cjwatson> that's roughly what InstallCDCustomization describes, only in more detail
[04:54] <cjwatson> "that's how to take the .deb and .udebs and make a CD"> that's debian-cd
[05:00] <secureboot_> basically, I'm wondering if i can take the .debs and .udebs from building a kernel, and apply the InstallCDCustomization stuff, which i'm very familiar with at this point, to including those .debs and .udebs somehow
[05:16] <secureboot_> can i just mount/modify the initrd, cp a new vmlinuz in, and boot from that?
[05:16] <secureboot_> how does one mount the initrd?
[05:16] <secureboot_> http://ioctl.org/unix/debian/x4100 doesn't work - it needs a type
[05:18] <secureboot_> ext2 doesn't work, cramfs doesn't work...
[05:42] <cjwatson> it's a gzipped cpio archive
[05:42] <cjwatson> a.k.a. initramfs
[05:43] <cjwatson> zcat /path/to/initrd.gz | cpio -id in an empty directory to extract it, find . | cpio --quiet -o -H newc | gzip -9c > /path/to/initrd.gz in a modified copy of that to recreate it
[09:17] <CIA-4> migration-assistant: evand * r36 migration-assistant/ (debian/changelog firefox-import.c): Whoops! Inverted a test by accident.
[09:18] <CIA-4> migration-assistant: evand * r37 migration-assistant/debian/changelog: Releasing 0.4
[09:19] <evand> cjwatson: Can you upload that if you get a chance?
[09:55] <cr3> I'm trying to preseed an expert_recipe but the installation process always stalls on Guided or Manual install