[12:27] <phratman> cjwatson: What if I had a file (partitions.list) that contained sfdisk -d /dev/sda > partitions.list? Would I be able to read the partition table back in with sfdisk /dev/sda < partitions.list in that prepartitioned script instead of that hack?
[02:19] <phratman> cjwatson: What all can go in %packages?
[02:20] <phratman> cjwatson: Anything?
[08:37] <cjwatson> phratman: that's harder. Probably still possible but harder. Bits of the installer expect partman to have been used.
[08:38] <cjwatson> phratman: any of the @-things mentioned in the installation guide, or any package name
[09:12] <kwah> Hi everyone
[09:13] <kwah> Where can I find an information about what "Install with driver update CD" variant of installation for?
[09:56] <cjwatson_> kwah: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubiquity/DriverUpdates
[10:01] <kwah> thanks. cjwatson
[07:49] <phratman> cjwatson: If you're still around, could you please take a look at this for me?: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/109475 (I added a comment last night)
[07:53] <cjwatson> phratman: both attempts to modify partitions= are wrong
[07:53] <phratman> cjwatson: Oh?
[07:53] <cjwatson> phratman: try putting 'set -x' on the line below the second #! /bin/sh (i.e. the one below the cat >blah <<EOF) and the resulting /var/log/syslog may be useful to me
[07:54] <cjwatson> the partitions variable is in partman's internal representation - it's not a list of device names
[07:54] <phratman> cjwatson: So in other words, I shouldn't be modifying it?
[07:54] <cjwatson> nope
[07:54] <cjwatson> the only user-serviceable bit in there is the case statement inside 'for partition in $partitions'
[07:55] <cjwatson> oh and the /dev/sda
[07:55] <cjwatson> I didn't write it for easy modification though - it was the quickest workaround that would let you do the autopartitioning you were looking for
[07:56] <cjwatson> also %pre --nochroot is meaningless, FWIW - the chroot isn't set up when %pre scripts run, so they're all effectively --nochroot
[07:56] <cjwatson> anyway, if you can get me a /var/log/syslog with set -x, that may help
[07:57] <cjwatson> (btw, part of the point for me in doing this is to learn enough to put something more sensible in place in the standard installer)
[08:38] <phratman> cjwatson: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/109475/comments/3
[08:46] <phratman> cjwatson: Also with the kickstart configuration file, is there any easy way of adding another repository to the list? It currently feeds off a local repository as per the "Install from... {CD, FTP, HTTP, etc.}" tab in system-config-kickstart. However, now I need to add another repository.
[10:05] <cjwatson> phratman: use the local repository stuff in https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/installation-guide/i386/preseed-contents.html#preseed-apt with the 'preseed' kickstart command
[10:06] <cjwatson> phratman: re your syslog, it looks like you don't have a /dev/sda on that system?