[12:33] <cjwatson> bdmurray: it's not that it's dangerous not to but it's a hell of a lot faster to format it than to check it
[12:33] <cjwatson> bdmurray: it's actually annoyingly tedious to fix that bug due to the way the backend works. I've known about it for a while though and it's on my list
[12:33] <cjwatson> there's definitely a bug about it already
[12:34] <bdmurray> cjwatson: Right I read about that in bug 83166 which seems to be the one you are talking about
[12:35] <cjwatson> that's the one
[12:38] <bdmurray> I was just quite surprised to see swap not checked and then have it formatted.
[12:40] <cjwatson> indeed, it's a known deficiency
[03:17] <xivulon> cjwatson, at the moment if a CD is detected I do not copy that on HD (I only extract the kernel/initrd). I was reconsidering that.
[03:18] <xivulon> The issue is that the above implies that you have to reboot with the CD inserted, which then forces the users to select "boot from first hard disk"
[03:18] <xivulon> If I copy the CD to the HD, I can simply eject the CD and ask the users to remove the CD and reboot.
[03:19] <xivulon> This to me is a more elegant solution (but it wastes 700MB).
[08:14] <CIA-18> ubiquity: superm1 * r2229 ubiquity/ (debian/changelog ubiquity/components/mythbuntu_apply.py): mythbuntu: allow vnc to be selected with foreign locales, bug 136482
[09:09] <xivulon> cjwatson, any opinion on my previous comments?
[09:09] <evand> xivulon: he's out for the day
[09:09] <xivulon> ah
[09:09] <xivulon> your opinion?
[09:09] <xivulon> evand, that you know, can ubiquity resize a partition if the device is mounted (r/o)?
[09:09] <evand> copying it to the HD sounds fine to me.  I think the boot process is complicated enough as it is, no need to make them jump through yet another hoop by selecting another menu option.
[09:09] <evand> xivulon: it should try to unmount it first if memory serves
[09:09] <xivulon> The reason I am asking is because I have now a "dedicated partition" mode
[09:09] <xivulon> which simply starts ubiquity with a preseed, but without any partitioning preseeding
[09:09] <xivulon> but that might happen when the ISO is on the HD
[09:09] <xivulon> I guess it's ok since that how hd-media works
[09:09] <xivulon> but wanted to make sure
[09:09] <evand> well, still check with cjwatson
[09:09] <xivulon> sure
[09:09] <evand> great
[09:09] <xivulon> how is unionfs doing?
[09:09] <xivulon> is the latest build working +/-?
[09:09] <evand> I haven't checked today's build, but we have a bug to track:
[09:09] <evand> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/138915
[09:15] <xivulon> evand, what is a good way to extract distro name/version from a cd that works across different ubuntu flavors?
[09:17] <xivulon> also, how difficult would it be to avoid the last reboot?
[09:18] <evand>  .disk/info?
[09:19] <evand> last reboot?
[09:26] <xivulon> I mean if it would be possible to boot straight into the newly installed system without having to reboot
[09:27] <evand> from the livecd?
[09:28] <xivulon> well we will be use the livecd iso, even if we boot from hd, so in a sense yes
[09:30] <evand> no, I imagine for a number of reasons, but the one that sticks out is that you have unionfs running from the initrd.
[09:42] <xivulon> thx