[05:59] <jafoo0> Hey everyone, i've got a question on a system that failed 3/4ths the way in on the ubuntu machine, anyone care to help?
[05:59] <jafoo0> 'er.. failed 3/4ths the way in on ubuntu install
[06:27] <CIA-18> ubiquity: evand * r2205 ubiquity/ (4 files in 3 dirs): * Update noninteractive frontend to work with recent changes.
[07:17] <mathiaz> hi. I'm trying to use d-i to preseed an install for ubuntu-server.
[07:17] <mathiaz> How can I set the grub options ?
[07:18] <mathiaz> Is there a place where all the d-i preseed options are documented ?
[07:22] <evand> mathiaz: you could run debconf-get-selections at the end of an install before you reboot.  I don't believe there's an actual list though.
[07:23] <evand> Another option is to look at the templates files in the source package for the component you're interested in
[07:24] <thom> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/apbs04.html is probably as good as it gets, documentationwise
[07:26] <mathiaz> evand, thom: ok. Thanks.
[07:26] <mathiaz> I also run into another problem when I was trying to run a complete automated install.
[07:26] <mathiaz> in the documentation, it's written that the auto option on the kernel would do the right thing
[07:27] <mathiaz> however I still get asked some question (like detecting the keyboard)
[07:27] <evand> mathiaz: some options have to be seeded on the kernel cmdline.
[07:27] <mathiaz> isn't the auto option supposed to postponed all the keyboard/langage question after the network is up ?
[07:27] <evand> unless you're doing initrd preseeding
[07:28] <mathiaz> I'm trying to do http preseeding
[07:28] <cjwatson> thom: there's a more appropriate version on help.ubuntu.com
[07:28] <cjwatson> https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/installation-guide/i386/appendix-preseed.html
[07:28] <mathiaz> so that I don't have to remaster the iso whenever I want to install a new ubuntu-server instance
[07:29] <cjwatson> in any case, just tacking options onto the kernel command line should cause them to be passed through to the installed kernel's bootloader entries
[07:29] <cjwatson> you don't have to do any preseeding for that
[07:29] <mathiaz> I'm trying to automate iso tests, and there are a couple of test cases I'd like to cover automatically.
[07:29] <cjwatson> 'auto' is not what you want; you're looking at the wrong documentation, I suspect
[07:29] <thom> cjwatson: ahah
[07:29] <mathiaz> cjwatson: I was looking at the debian documentation.
[07:29] <cjwatson> mathiaz: don't
[07:29] <mathiaz> cjwatson: ok. I'll have a look at help.u.c then
[07:30] <cjwatson> 'auto' activates auto-install which isn't in main and isn't in our installer
[07:30] <cjwatson> (because it's a recent development and we haven't looked at integrating it properly yet)
[07:30] <mathiaz> is there a way to achieve the same thing in our installer ?
[07:30] <cjwatson> auto-install is just a convenience wrapper, it's not essential. See our documentation
[07:31] <mathiaz> cjwatson: ok. Thanks.
[07:31] <cjwatson> our support team will recommend Kickstart, though you may need to supplement that with preseeding from time to time
[07:31] <cjwatson> https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/installation-guide/i386/automatic-install.html
[10:06] <evand> bug 137338
[10:07] <evand> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/137338
[10:07] <evand> cjwatson: bad burn or squashfs bug?
[12:05] <xivulon> cjwatson,evand, do you know when fuse and lupin-gutsy will be in the daily build?