[12:33] <cjwatson> btm_: you can't really configure d-i to not run partman (at least, not without a great deal of expertise and pain), but I think feisty has enough of partman-auto-lvm and friends that you should be able to preseed partman-auto/method to lvm and use lvm preseeding
[12:33] <cjwatson> but I have to confess I am not familiar with the details
[12:33] <cjwatson> hmm, looks like it may not support multi-disk
[12:34] <cjwatson> ok, that sucks - um, probably the easiest way would be to blat a script over the top of /var/lib/dpkg/info/partman-base.postinst that sets up the partitioning how you want it, mounts /target, sets up /target/etc/fstab, and exits without actually calling partman
[12:35] <cjwatson> but "some assembly required"
[12:45] <xivulon> cjwatson: disregard the bug report of today
[12:47] <xivulon> that sounds like my hack
[12:50] <xivulon> except mine was worse
[01:05] <cjwatson> xivulon: ok, please reject it then if you haven't already?
[01:05] <btm_> cjwatson: thanks, I'll dig further.
[01:08] <xivulon> cjwatson: ok
[04:34] <btm_> the problem I'm having is finding a hook between download-installer and partman such that i can overwrite partman-base.postinst after anna-install runs. i was thinking about a udeb with a higher menu item and a postconf that would overwrite it, but it looks like that means I'll have to mangle the Packages file / Release / signatures as I don't see a way to get anna to install local udebs.
[06:25] <mirkobuholzer> cjwatson: you mentioned in the auto install blueprint that preseeding should work but ubiquity will not skip the pages. I am trying to preseed with debconf-set-selections mypreseed.cfg . but cant see any of my settings in the ubiquity ui. any hint?
[06:30] <mirkobuholzer> sorry i am a newbie, so please excuse any obvious questions...
[08:12] <btm_> mirkobuholzer: any reason to not use d-i instead of ubiquity?
[08:53] <cjwatson> btm_: it's not pretty, but you could use a preseed/early_install script to tack something onto the end of /var/lib/dpkg/info/download-installer.postinst that actually does the work
[08:53] <cjwatson> mirkobuholzer: "should", but it wouldn't necessarily surprise me if it doesn't in places right now
[09:08] <btm_> cjwatson: we're far beyond pretty here, here. thanks, it hadn't occured to me that udeb was pre-installed in the initrd.
[09:21] <cjwatson> yup, has to be :)
[09:22] <btm_> haha. right.
[01:05] <CIA-19> ubiquity: cjwatson * r2080 ubiquity/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.5.2
[01:09] <cjwatson> (I actually uploaded 1.5.2 a while back, but forgot to commit the changelog)
[02:46] <CIA-19> ubiquity: cjwatson * r2081 ubiquity/ (configure configure.ac): bump to 1.5.3
[02:51] <evand> heh
[04:57] <evand> cjwatson: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubiquity/Contributing .  I started it while I was waiting for today's daily-live to finish downloading.  Let me know if you have any comments.
[04:57] <evand> My idea is to walk through adding the ssh server support to Ubiquity
[04:57] <evand> but I now realize that a d-i component would probably be overkill for that