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| mpt | Perhaps it was a keyboard layout that required Shift for "-" | 12:06 |
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| cjwatson | mpt: I was about to claim without proof that there were no such layouts, but sadly there are ;-) | 01:01 |
| cjwatson | ca(multi-2gr) and ca(multix). Those freaky Canadians | 01:02 |
| cjwatson | and the user in question came from an IP owned by a Montreal ISP, so you might actually be right ... | 01:03 |
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| Elwell | Hey folks, is there a way to dump out progress into a preseed file to use on other machines? | 01:33 |
| Elwell | explicitly d-i partman stuff :-) | 01:33 |
| cjwatson | you can run debconf-get-selections --installer after installation | 01:35 |
| Elwell | aha. ta | 01:36 |
| cjwatson | but in the case of partman that won't be very useful, since partman needs to be preseeded with a special recipe | 01:36 |
| cjwatson | and debconf-get-selections won't give you that, I'm afraid | 01:36 |
| cjwatson | it should be somewhat helpful with the rest, but do look through it in conjunction with the installation guide as it probably won't be appropriate exactly as-is | 01:36 |
| Elwell | I'm looking at the exanple expert_recipie parts | 01:36 |
| Elwell | but they don't have an LVM example | 01:36 |
| cjwatson | I know LVM preseeding is possible, but I'm afraid I'm not an expert on it yet | 01:37 |
| Elwell | :-) yeah - 'twas I who poked bigkevmcd earlier | 01:37 |
| cjwatson | there is some mention of lvm in the partman-auto-recipe.txt document | 01:38 |
| Elwell | I promise to write this up if I get it working | 01:38 |
| cjwatson | ah | 01:38 |
| cjwatson | yeah, I'm going to need to become an expert in order to get Kickstart going for it | 01:38 |
| Elwell | [background - was going to install 25 machines with Scientific Linux 5 (RHEL5 clone) then discovered that the bundled firefox is still 1.5.0.10. | 01:39 |
| Elwell | so decided to go ubuntu as per my laptop] | 01:39 |
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| blackskad | hi all | 03:24 |
| blackskad | cjwatson: I attached a patch to bug #45690, however it's not conform to the hig | 03:24 |
| blackskad | what would you propose so it conforms to the hig? | 03:24 |
| cjwatson | blackskad: would be better to have non-stock text and translate that in the same way we translate stuff like "Continue using the live CD" and "Restart now" (via debian/ubiquity.templates and special widget names that ubiquity knows to go and translate) | 03:26 |
| blackskad | cjwatson: ok, and what text would you use? I would use something as "continue" and "abort" | 03:28 |
| cjwatson | it's possibly worth noting that OOo uses save/discard/cancel and gedit uses close without saving / cancel / save as | 03:30 |
| cjwatson | so cancel doesn't *seem* to be forbidden there .. | 03:31 |
| cjwatson | but anyway, strings like "Continue installing" and "Abort the installation" sound like they'd work | 03:31 |
| cjwatson | or maybe | 03:32 |
| cjwatson | "Do you really want to abort the installation now, or would you like to continue?" | 03:32 |
| cjwatson | "Continue" "Abort" | 03:32 |
| cjwatson | (current dialog text is "Do you really want to abort the installation now?") | 03:33 |
| cjwatson | I like reusing the verbs from the text | 03:33 |
| cjwatson | only trick is to make sure the translators are aware of that, but that can be done with comments | 03:33 |
| blackskad | cancel sounds fine if the other choices are well defined, so that the meaning of cancel is clear too, which is not realy the case | 03:34 |
| cjwatson | maybe "... or would you like to continue installing?" | 03:34 |
| cjwatson | mm, abort and cancel are too similar in meaning for that to be clear I think | 03:34 |
| cjwatson | so I think abort and continue are fair enough | 03:34 |
| blackskad | yes, those continue and abort should do fine | 03:35 |
| blackskad | I'll try to make up a patch | 03:35 |
| blackskad | it might take a while though :) | 03:36 |
| cjwatson | grep for the ids of other widgets that are translated and it should help to understand how it works | 03:37 |
| cjwatson | these should be one of the widgets that are translated immediately when you select a language on the language page (before hitting next) | 03:37 |
| blackskad | ok, I'll try to figure it out | 03:40 |
| blackskad | can I ping you when I encounter a problem? | 03:40 |
| cjwatson | sure | 03:44 |
| mark | grr, dovecot in feisty is rather broken | 04:55 |
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| === Topic (#ubuntu-installer): set by cjwatson at Fri Jan 5 15:12:40 2007 | ||
| (cjwatson/#ubuntu-installer) one problem is that outside the installer what you want is for the LVM to be activated immediately | 10:58 | |
| (cjwatson/#ubuntu-installer) but inside the installer, that's not entirely obviously the case - I wanted to think about whether that would cause problems for the partitioner | 10:59 | |
| Elwell | in my case I want to blow the HDD's completely and start afresh | 11:02 |
| Elwell | (preinstalled Dell XP stuff...) | 11:02 |
| Elwell | The reason for the delay is I'm rebuilding the same box over and over till I get the kickstart/preseed working | 11:03 |
| Elwell | so get bitten by the timeout | 11:03 |
| Elwell | tempted to see if I can do something like pxeboot into a "mini setup" system to get things laid out, then reboot into the ubuntu install | 11:04 |
| cjwatson | ok, check with Keybuk then | 11:05 |
| cjwatson | he's usually around UK business hours, or mail him | 11:05 |
| Elwell | ta. I suspect I'll still be working on this tomorrow | 11:05 |
| Elwell | OK - http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/amd64/apb.html.en -- has the ubuntu installer diverged wildly from the debian one? | 11:16 |
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| cjwatson | Elwell: not *wildly*, but a bit; try https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/installation-guide/i386/appendix-preseed.html | 11:21 |
| Elwell | ta. what package is the source for that - still "debian-installer"? | 11:24 |
| mirkobuholzer | where can I find a list of answers to run ubiquity with the <noui>? | 11:46 |
| superm1 | cjwatson, were there any other rough edges you wanted me to look into before I attempted to cleanly add our files as deriving from your files' as base classes? | 11:50 |
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