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| mark | linux requiring restarts for a lot of partition changes sucks a lot for the installer eh | 10:26 |
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| mark | I am just installing ubuntu on a desktop machine, and the installer fails / hangs because of it | 10:26 |
| cjwatson | that should only happen if partitions on the relevant disk are mountted | 10:36 |
| cjwatson | mounted | 10:36 |
| cjwatson | if the partition table is unused then Linux doesn't need to be rebootted | 10:37 |
| cjwatson | argh, damn t key | 10:37 |
| CIA-4 | ubiquity: cjwatson * r1898 ubiquity/ (d-i/manifest debian/changelog): (log message trimmed) | 10:57 |
| CIA-4 | ubiquity: * Automatic update of included source packages: apt-setup 1:0.16ubuntu4, | 10:57 |
| CIA-4 | ubiquity: base-installer 1.70ubuntu4, choose-mirror 2.10ubuntu2, clock-setup | 10:57 |
| CIA-4 | ubiquity: 0.12ubuntu2, debian-installer-utils 1.42ubuntu2, migration-assistant | 10:57 |
| CIA-4 | ubiquity: 0.4, partman-auto 62ubuntu5, partman-base 100ubuntu4, | 10:57 |
| CIA-4 | ubiquity: partman-basicfilesystems 51ubuntu2, partman-basicmethods 33ubuntu2, | 10:57 |
| CIA-4 | ubiquity: partman-efi 11ubuntu2, partman-ext3 45ubuntu2, partman-jfs 20ubuntu2, | 10:57 |
| CIA-4 | ubiquity: cjwatson * r1899 ubiquity/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.3.22 | 11:21 |
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| secureboot | when I fakeroot make build_monolithic, the .iso I get has the 2.6.17-10-generic kernel on it, while the modules are for 2.6.17-10-386. | 04:05 |
| secureboot | i have udebs for the 386 modules in localdebs | 04:05 |
| secureboot | now, i can modify the kernel-version in the i386.cfg file to specify generic, and all works well | 04:05 |
| secureboot | however, i'd like the 386 kernel - why might the generic kernel be the one being booted in the iso, instead of 386? | 04:05 |
| cjwatson | you'd need to change build/config/i386.cfg or wherever it is - somewhere under build/config anyway | 04:17 |
| cjwatson | there's a master kernel version encoded in there | 04:17 |
| secureboot | one more question - with custom udebs - why don't all modules show up in the installer's /lib/modules? I"d like to include more modules than are there, and all the ones built into the kernel that the udebs came from aren't included - why is this, and how do i add them so that d-i knows about them? | 04:19 |
| cjwatson | because only Priority: standard and above ones are pulled in automatically | 04:20 |
| cjwatson | (above => important, required) | 04:20 |
| cjwatson | note that those that aren't in the initrd will not show up in /lib/modules until after the "Retrieving installer components from CD" or similar stage; the initrd is deliberately kept fairly small, only what's needed to boot and fetch more bits | 04:21 |
| cjwatson | we don't include everything in udebs because not everything's useful in the installer environment, and there are typically some space constraints | 04:21 |
| secureboot | so more things will show up after a ceratin boot stage? | 04:25 |
| secureboot | neat | 04:25 |
| secureboot | how does one pull in other modules then? | 04:26 |
| secureboot | like the aes module, for instance | 04:26 |
| cjwatson | Depends | 04:29 |
| cjwatson | if e.g. a partman module needs something, it can depend on it | 04:30 |
| cjwatson | alternatively, the anna-install program, if an installer component needs to make a dynamic decision on what to grab | 04:30 |
| secureboot | are all the kernel modules in SOME udeb? For example, is the AES module guaranteed to be in some udeb, or could it just be nowhere? | 04:36 |
| secureboot | assuming of course, i built correctly and AES is in the kernel | 04:38 |
| cjwatson | no, it could be nowhere | 04:50 |
| cjwatson | for example there's no need for squashfs in the (alternate) installer | 04:50 |
| cjwatson | or mouse drivers | 04:50 |
| cjwatson | or the bits of X support that are in the kernel (drm) | 04:51 |
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| secureboot | cjwatson: so how does one add custom modules to the installer's kernel? | 04:52 |
| secureboot | cjwatson: i haven't seen docs on that around | 04:53 |
| cjwatson | could you clarify? | 04:54 |
| secureboot | say i want the installer kernel to have access to the AES module - how would I do such a thing? | 04:55 |
| secureboot | if the AES module isn't in the udebs that are generated when I make a custom kernel, what's the best procedure? | 04:55 |
| secureboot | i have a linux-image deb - should I get the installer to install that, and use its modules? is that the most appropriate approach? | 04:55 |
| cjwatson | wah, no | 04:56 |
| secureboot | good - that's ugly | 04:56 |
| cjwatson | if you need it in the installer, add it to the appropriate files in debian/d-i/ or wherever it is - somewhere along those lines anyway | 04:56 |
| cjwatson | you'll need to add it to package-list and then create the right file to list what modules should be includued | 04:56 |
| cjwatson | included | 04:56 |
| cjwatson | if you look at the existing files there, it should be relatively straightforward to work out | 04:57 |
| cjwatson | the kernel-wedge program has online help (see kernel-wedge(1) for pointers) | 04:57 |
| secureboot | are these files in the kernel source, or in d-i? | 04:58 |
| cjwatson | kernel source | 04:58 |
| secureboot | okay - i'll look into it, thanks | 04:58 |
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| secureboot | is there a good way to run post-install scripts? | 07:43 |
| secureboot | i've got like 5 i want to run | 07:49 |
| evand | secureboot: /usr/lib/finish-install.d, I believe. | 07:58 |
| evand | so /usr/lib/finish-install.d/99yourscript | 07:58 |
| evand | would be the last thing to run | 07:58 |
| evand | if I understand your question correctly | 07:59 |
| secureboot | evand: sounds like you do | 08:00 |
| secureboot | evand: thanks | 08:00 |
| evand | no problem | 08:00 |
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