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macogwhave there by any chance been reports of serious issues with feisty's installers (both ubiquity and d-i)?04:57
macogwfor instance, ubiquity seqfaulting mid-install and d-i quitting at 6% of "installing software"04:58
evandmacogw: none that I've seen.  You might want to check your memory and hard drive.  Please report a bug (attaching the appropriate logs) if they're both OK.04:59
macogwevand: done and done04:59
macogwevand: i had to install from 6.10's live cd and then upgrade04:59
macogwevand: what would be "the appropriate logs"? and i did figure out one way for d-i to install..tell it not to install X, after which "apt-get install ubuntu-desktop" fails05:00
macogwevand: also not my cd drive. i could install debian etch, dapper, and edgy with no problems, and i checksum'd all 4 feisty cd's that i tried05:01
evandmacogw: Running ubiquity with the -d option and attaching /var/log/installer/debug and /var/log/syslog05:01
macogwok i can try that05:01
macogwwhat to do about d-i though?05:02
evandhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/AttachingLogs05:02
evandI believe syslog will do for d-i.05:03
macogwevand: but..how do i get syslog?05:03
evand/var/log/installer/syslog in the installed system, I believe05:04
macogwevand: i cant get into bash while d-i is running05:04
macogwit doesnt finish installing05:04
evandah05:04
evandalt-f405:04
evandhit enter05:04
macogwok05:04
evandyou are able to use the other VTs05:04
macogwoh oko05:04
macogwi thought they were disabled during it05:04
evanderrr05:04
evandVT 4 is the actual log05:05
evandtry 305:05
evandalt-f305:05
macogwkk05:05
macogwevand: also, i wanted to know, is there any chance that at some point the installers will stop installing 30+ video drivers and bluetooth drivers and drivers for all kinds of hardware that dont even exist in your computer?05:06
macogwi find it kind of weird that the bluetooth driver is set to run from boot on my pentium 205:07
macogwya know, on top of the fact that there's even bluetooth drivers *installed*05:07
evandmacogw: it's not much overhead for a huge gain for the people that have it.05:07
macogwevand: not what i mean05:07
macogwevand: if your comp has bluetooth, then install/setup bluetooth stuff05:07
macogwif your comp doesnt have bluetooth, skip it05:08
macogwor does hardware detection not factor into what's installed at all?05:08
evandI'm not involved in the bluetooth stack, but if they could make it detect when bluetooth hardware was present 100% of the time without loading the drivers and supporting applications, then I imagine they would.05:09
evandThat is, install on demand.05:09
macogwit tricked me into thinking my laptop had bluetooth when it doesnt :p05:10
evandThere has been at least one thread on ubuntu-devel on this, as it pertained to printers, but I can't find it.05:10
evandheh05:10
macogwevand: i was thinking that for ubuntu to be leaner, the original installers could install drivers for just what's present at install, then have a secondary program which does a check at boot to make sure your config hasnt changed, and dies silently if it's the same as last boot, but if it's different, it brings up an ncurses thing going "you have installed a new graphics card, ATI Radeon 9200, which requires xserver-xorg-video-ati to run. would05:12
macogwoi, i can type 2 or 3 words  before they appear on the screen05:13
macogwand i dont type that fast05:14
macogwif i thought it was possible to run some sort of benchmarking software without windows freaking out before i installed this, i would compare their slownesses05:14
evandIf you're looking for a leaner Ubuntu, try Xubuntu.  As far as kernel drivers go, most things are compiled as modules, so it takes up a few kilobytes on your drive and isn't loaded until it's needed.05:17
macogwevand: i was gonna go fluxbox or icewm, but im not sure my family would welcome anything but gnome05:18
evandXFCE (what's used in Xubuntu) isn't half bad, and if you're running a Pentium 2 I can't imagine GNOME running well on that these days.05:19
macogwevand: i'm told kde runs better on it than gnome05:19
macogwi wonder if i can install ubuntu and xubuntu and have it fit on this hard drive05:20
macogwer...ubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop i mean05:20
evandI've bounced between KDE and GNOME a few times over the years.  I haven't seen much of a performance difference between the two.05:21
evandymmv though05:21
macogwevand: he says he runs kubuntu on a p2 with 160mb ram05:21
macogwthis one has 192 mb, but i'm gonna max it out (384mb)05:21
evandhrm05:22
evandHey if it works, go for it05:22
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CIA-19ubiquity: cjwatson * r2071 ubiquity/ (debian/changelog ubiquity/components/console_setup.py):04:10
CIA-19ubiquity: * Update console-setup component for Lithuanian changes in console-setup04:10
CIA-19ubiquity:  1.16ubuntu1.04:10
CIA-19oem-config: cjwatson * r296 oem-config/ (debian/changelog lib/components/console_setup.py):04:16
CIA-19oem-config: * Update console-setup component for Lithuanian changes in console-setup04:16
CIA-19oem-config:  1.16ubuntu1.04:16
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