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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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troughton | i 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 |
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cjwatson | troughton: neither | 12:12 |
cjwatson | troughton: at least as far as Linux is concerned | 12:12 |
troughton | so they can be on exteded partitions | 12:12 |
cjwatson | troughton: however your BIOS might not want to boot off a logical partition | 12:12 |
cjwatson | so you might well need to have / (or at least /boot) on a primary partition for the sake of the BIOS | 12:13 |
troughton | ok thanks | 12:13 |
cjwatson | /home can definitely be wherever you want | 12:13 |
troughton | ok cool thanks | 12:14 |
cjwatson | the 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 conserrvative | 12:14 |
troughton | yer 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 answers | 12:15 |
cjwatson | sure | 12:19 |
cjwatson | I'm not saying this is specific to Ubuntu, just pointing out that that's what we do by default for the reasons I gave above | 12:19 |
cjwatson | none of this is specific to Linux for that matter, it's just what the BIOS is willing to do | 12:20 |
cjwatson | (note also that certain BIOSes get upset if you have *no* primary partitions ...) | 12:20 |
troughton | yer i understand that and still recomend ubuntu and use it but i have more that ubuntu uses at my lug | 12:20 |
cjwatson | aye | 12:20 |
troughton | ok thanks thats been a grate help | 12:21 |
cjwatson | woo, I think I've fixed os-prober to safely deal with mounted partitions | 12:52 |
evand | awesome! | 03:03 |
cjwatson | (os-prober 1.20, in gutsy now) | 03:04 |
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superm1 | evand, I merged in and tested cjwatson's recommendation this morning | 05:36 |
evand | superm1: thanks! I'll take a look at it after the distro-team meeting. | 05:37 |
superm1 | k thx | 05:37 |
evand | superm1: 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 |
superm1 | evand, oh didn't realize that strings are UTF by default, ok. | 06:11 |
cjwatson | that's sort of true but it's not relevant, as that's not what escape does | 06:15 |
cjwatson | (at least in the preseed method) | 06:15 |
cjwatson | neither of the strings "true" or "false" can ever need escaping, so ... | 06:15 |
cjwatson | (escape is for backslashes and newlines) | 06:16 |
evand | ah, whoops. I was looking at the wrong indentation level | 06:16 |
cjwatson | the encode stuff is there because strings returned by PyQt (QString wrappers) don't autoconvert to unicode objects | 06:16 |
superm1 | so pygtk stuff never touches the encoding stuff at all then even | 06:17 |
cjwatson | well, it does touch it, but it's mostly redundant for pygtk | 06:19 |
cjwatson | easier to have the same code path though. | 06:19 |
superm1 | right. 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 well | 06:20 |
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evand | superm1: any particular reason why you're not using boolean for the lirc stuff? | 06:31 |
superm1 | evand, could you point me where your referring to? | 06:32 |
evand | the mythbuntu/lirc_remote, mythbuntu/lirc_driver, and mythbuntu/lirc_rc templates | 06:33 |
superm1 | those are actual strings | 06:33 |
superm1 | that are parsed from an external database that is now shipped with lirc | 06:33 |
evand | ah, my mistake | 06:34 |
superm1 | there are still a few odds and ends to sort out with lirc - but i'm still discussing with others how we will be sorting them | 06:36 |
evand | ok | 06:36 |
CIA-19 | ubiquity: evand * r2166 ubiquity/ (9 files in 5 dirs): Merged with ubiquity.mythbuntu | 06:36 |
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