[01:19] <superm1> cjwatson_, you still here?
[01:55] <casperzshado> im having a problem booting my ubuntu on my brothers pc, anybody care to gimme a hand?
[02:01] <casperzshado> anyone here?
[04:03] <cr3> would it make sense for preseeding to automatically determine the disk device, assuming there is only one disk, instead of having to specify the disk explicitly: d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
[04:07] <cjwatson> cr3: it does, if you also preseed partman-auto/method.
[04:08] <cjwatson> partman-auto (62ubuntu3) feisty; urgency=low
[04:08] <cjwatson> partman-auto (62ubuntu3) feisty; urgency=l  * auto.d/initial_auto: If partman-auto/method is preseeded and
[04:08] <cjwatson>     partman-auto/disk is not but there is only one disk, act as though
[04:08] <cjwatson>     partman-auto/disk had been preseeded to that disk. This simplifies a
[04:08] <cjwatson>     number of preseeding scenarios that had been complicated by the removal
[04:08] <cjwatson>     of devfs path support.
[04:08] <cjwatson>  -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>  Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:46:39 +0100
[04:09] <cr3> cjwatson: cheers! how did you get that information into the channel?
[04:09] <cr3> if it's just a copy and paste, where did you copy from?
[04:12] <cjwatson> you've seen changelogs before, haven't you?
[04:13] <cr3> cjwatson: it looked like it but, for some reason, it looked more like a feature request. sorry for the stupid question :/
[04:13] <cjwatson> no, it's
[04:13] <cjwatson> just the partman-auto changelog
[04:13] <cjwatson> (modulo irssi paste damage)
[04:13] <cr3> that is very cool, intel will be very pleased to hear about it
[04:14] <cjwatson> 'd-i partman-auto/method string regular' is the other piece of the puzzle for normal setups (as opposed to lvm or what-have-you). They probably have that already
[04:14] <cr3> cjwatson: how can I know the values supported by partman-auto/method? I remember having to specify "regular" during feisty, but I didn't quite understand why.
[04:15] <cjwatson> see the installation guide
[04:15] <cjwatson> except that crypto is not yet supported in Ubuntu
[06:06] <cr3> cjwatson: when I only specify "d-i partman-auto/method string regular" without "d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda", I get prompted to partition disks. I guess I will read the installation guide more carefully
[06:13] <cjwatson> wow, the wubi build system runs on Unix with WINE
[06:13] <cjwatson> need to have NSIS installed though
[06:13] <evand> hahaha
[06:14] <cr3> cjwatson: so partman-auto-method string regular doesn't seem to be picking up the only disk on the system, I'm about to send you the syslog and partman files
[06:14] <evand> what even possessed you to try that?
[06:16] <cjwatson> cr3: ok
[06:16] <cjwatson> evand: I didn't try it, I was curious about where we would start with including wubi on the CDs and went to look ...
[06:17] <evand> ah
[06:17] <cjwatson> looks like it has a bunch of code for allocating disk images that can be replaced by partman-auto-loop now
[06:17] <evand> nice
[06:18] <cjwatson> well, once I get fuse and ntfs udebs done and such
[06:20] <cjwatson> cr3: that syslog shows four disks
[06:27] <cr3> cjwatson: but the installer doesn't prompt me to select on which disk I want to install, it only offers to partition sda
[06:28] <cjwatson> I never said there was UI for that :)
[06:28] <cjwatson> oh, er, wait
[06:29] <cjwatson> cr3: what if you select "Guided - use entire disk"? you didn't in the logs you sent me
[06:30] <cjwatson> the auto-resize thing only ever offers freed space on one selected disk
[06:30] <cjwatson> you'll never get multiple "Guided - resize <blah> and use freed space" options
[06:30] <cjwatson> the partitioner has certainly noticed the existence of the other disks though
[06:33] <cr3> cjwatson: thanks for the explanation, I had assumed from the UI that there was only one disk but I should've paid more attention to the log file. that'll learn me