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=== Topic for #ubuntu-installer: Development of d-i and ubiquity in Ubuntu | http://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallerDevelopment
=== Topic (#ubuntu-installer): set by cjwatson at Fri Jan 5 15:12:40 2007
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troughtoni am wanting to install multipul versions of linux on the same harddrive with a shared home folder i know i am only alowed 4 primary partitions so i would like to konw dose the linux root need to be on a primary and dose the home folder need to be on a primary ?12:10
cjwatsontroughton: neither12:12
cjwatsontroughton: at least as far as Linux is concerned12:12
troughtonso they can be on exteded partitions12:12
cjwatsontroughton: however your BIOS might not want to boot off a logical partition12:12
cjwatsonso you might well need to have / (or at least /boot) on a primary partition for the sake of the BIOS12:13
troughtonok thanks12:13
cjwatson/home can definitely be wherever you want12:13
troughtonok cool thanks12:14
cjwatsonthe only way to tell whether / needs to be on a primary partition is to try it, really :-) the Ubuntu installer always tries to put it on a primary partition for the sake of being conserrvative12:14
troughtonyer but i have been asked by one of my group how to multy install and i need to find out the difrences between versons of linux for my group so i need to multi install so i can give correct answers12:15
cjwatsonsure12:19
cjwatsonI'm not saying this is specific to Ubuntu, just pointing out that that's what we do by default for the reasons I gave above12:19
cjwatsonnone of this is specific to Linux for that matter, it's just what the BIOS is willing to do12:20
cjwatson(note also that certain BIOSes get upset if you have *no* primary partitions ...)12:20
troughtonyer i understand that and still recomend ubuntu and use it but i have more that ubuntu uses at my lug12:20
cjwatsonaye12:20
troughtonok thanks thats been a grate help12:21
cjwatsonwoo, I think I've fixed os-prober to safely deal with mounted partitions12:52
evandawesome!03:03
cjwatson(os-prober 1.20, in gutsy now)03:04
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superm1evand, I merged in and tested cjwatson's recommendation this morning05:36
evandsuperm1: thanks!  I'll take a look at it after the distro-team meeting.05:37
superm1k thx05:37
evandsuperm1: I don't believe having escape in the preseed_bool args is necessary as python strings are UTF by default, iirc, so I'm modifying that bit.06:10
superm1evand, oh didn't realize that strings are UTF by default, ok.06:11
cjwatsonthat's sort of true but it's not relevant, as that's not what escape does06:15
cjwatson(at least in the preseed method)06:15
cjwatsonneither of the strings "true" or "false" can ever need escaping, so ...06:15
cjwatson(escape is for backslashes and newlines)06:16
evandah, whoops.  I was looking at the wrong indentation level06:16
cjwatsonthe encode stuff is there because strings returned by PyQt (QString wrappers) don't autoconvert to unicode objects06:16
superm1so pygtk stuff never touches the encoding stuff at all then even06:17
cjwatsonwell, it does touch it, but it's mostly redundant for pygtk06:19
cjwatsoneasier to have the same code path though.06:19
superm1right.  I marked my branch to show up at https://code.launchpad.net/ubiquity now.  I'll rename it on the next merge up to something more sensible like ubiquity-mythbuntu as well06:20
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evandsuperm1: any particular reason why you're not using boolean for the lirc stuff?06:31
superm1evand, could you point me where your referring to?06:32
evandthe mythbuntu/lirc_remote, mythbuntu/lirc_driver, and mythbuntu/lirc_rc templates06:33
superm1those are actual strings06:33
superm1that are parsed from an external database that is now shipped with lirc06:33
evandah, my mistake06:34
superm1there are still a few odds and ends to sort out with lirc - but i'm still discussing with others how we will be sorting them06:36
evandok06:36
CIA-19ubiquity: evand * r2166 ubiquity/ (9 files in 5 dirs): Merged with ubiquity.mythbuntu06:36
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