[12:10] <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 ?
[12:12] <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
[12:13] <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
[12:14] <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
[12:15] <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
[12:19] <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
[12:20] <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
[12:21] <troughton> ok thanks thats been a grate help
[12:52] <cjwatson> woo, I think I've fixed os-prober to safely deal with mounted partitions
[03:03] <evand> awesome!
[03:04] <cjwatson> (os-prober 1.20, in gutsy now)
[05:36] <superm1> evand, I merged in and tested cjwatson's recommendation this morning
[05:37] <evand> superm1: thanks!  I'll take a look at it after the distro-team meeting.
[05:37] <superm1> k thx
[06:10] <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.
[06:11] <superm1> evand, oh didn't realize that strings are UTF by default, ok.
[06:15] <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 ...
[06:16] <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
[06:17] <superm1> so pygtk stuff never touches the encoding stuff at all then even
[06:19] <cjwatson> well, it does touch it, but it's mostly redundant for pygtk
[06:19] <cjwatson> easier to have the same code path though.
[06:20] <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
[06:31] <evand> superm1: any particular reason why you're not using boolean for the lirc stuff?
[06:32] <superm1> evand, could you point me where your referring to?
[06:33] <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
[06:34] <evand> ah, my mistake
[06:36] <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