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xivuloncjwatson partman autoloop fails to mount /host when an iso is used01:25
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cjwatsonsigh, xivulon, that was what I already told you10:03
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tepsipakkidoes the "pending Cell support" allow native installation on PS3?01:09
cjwatsonwe had that in feisty ...01:15
cjwatsonit expands it to some more machines01:15
cjwatsonwell, when I say feisty I mean with a few extra bug-fixes; see http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/custom/20070608-feisty-ps3/ and http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/custom/20070614-xubuntu-feisty-ps3/01:17
tepsipakkioh, ok.. I don't own one yet, but every installation doc I've encountered mentions that fedora needs to be installed first01:17
cjwatsonit doesn't01:17
tepsipakkibut maybe they were outdated01:17
tepsipakkiright01:17
cjwatsonmy PS3 has never had Fedora on it01:17
tepsipakkiheh, I take your word for it :)01:18
xivuloncjwatson could you pls have a quick look at the patches I sent this morning and in case merge them?01:19
cjwatsonxivulon: I will do, just doing other things first01:19
xivulonsure01:19
cjwatsonxivulon: if the find_iso mount needs to be visible to partman-auto-loop, I'm leaning towards reinstating the change to just call it /host02:35
cjwatsonI like keeping the number of top-level names as small as I can02:35
xivuloncjwatson the issue is that if you have the ISO on /host and target the same device (which is by far the most common case), that is fine02:42
xivulonbut... if you have the ISO on /host and target another device, autopartition loop will try to mount that other device as /host (if memory does not fail me)02:44
xivulonI would suggest to rename /isodevice -> host and IIF autopartion loop likes to use /host change that instead (since that top level folder is only used during installation)02:46
xivulonyep02:47
cjwatsonoh, hmm, I see02:47
xivulon#189 mount -o move /target /host02:48
cjwatsonno in that case I think I prefer /iso or /isodevice for the ISO02:48
xivulonok02:48
cjwatsonbecause /host is what we end up using on the installed system for the same purpose as /host during installation02:48
cjwatsonso it should have the same name02:48
xivulonmakes sense02:49
cjwatsonI'm not sure about pushing this in for beta mind you02:49
xivulonI was thinking the same thing02:50
cjwatsondon't get me wrong, it seems correct, but I'm trying to use my release team points sparingly for things that are critical :)02:50
xivulonBut on the other side we had very little testing on wubi/lupin...02:50
cjwatsonI know, and I'm desperate to get it tested, but at this point I think we only have time to test the CD case02:51
xivulonI'd still put the partman auto loop stuff in, since it will have no effect on a normal installation02:52
xivulonAnd can have people test using the ISO + the downloaded wubi.exe02:53
xivulonSame goes for lupin of course02:54
xivulonLupin patches should be included, since they should have no impact on a normal installation (and if they do, you do want to know now)02:55
cjwatson"should have no impact" is the sort of phrase that automatically strikes terror into release managers02:55
xivulonWhat I mean is that if they do have an impact, that is a bug, and it should be discovered now02:56
cjwatsonerm02:57
cjwatsonI see where you're coming from, but wubi needs to work in the default case by beta; that is the highest priority02:57
cjwatsonthe possibility of introducing bugs that might need us to respin is very very bad02:57
cjwatsonbecause it either means delaying the Ubuntu beta or removing wubi from it02:58
cjwatsonwe will have time after beta to fix this sort of thing02:58
cjwatsonbut if wubi isn't in place and working by beta, it isn't going to be in the final release02:58
xivulonLet me rephrase, partman auto-loop and lupin do work as far as I can tell in the default case (when there is no wubi.exe)02:58
cjwatsonright, that's great and that's enough for beta02:59
cjwatsonwe can land these fixes immediately afterwards02:59
cjwatsonI'm already getting away with a lot by getting it into place this late, and I can't stretch much further03:01
cjwatson(and I realise that was my fault at least as much as anyone else's)03:01
xivuloncjwatson, I understand, don't worry03:01
cjwatsonin particular I'm not confident of the partman-auto-loop changes03:02
cjwatsonwhat you sent is definitely wrong because it will break any preseeding that involves more than one partition03:02
xivulonThey have not been tested to date03:02
cjwatsonso I think it deserves some care03:02
cjwatsonplus, it's not really the same device03:04
cjwatsonactually, no, ignore that bit03:04
xivulonI do not think that multiple partitions with loopinstallations is much of an issue03:04
cjwatsonsorry, I'm confused, your change should be fine03:04
cjwatsonI meant like multiple .disk files03:05
cjwatsonbut it's not an issue here03:05
cjwatsonstill, anything that makes my head hurt this much I don't want to ram through for beta :)03:05
xivulonwhat is a realistic plan?03:06
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cjwatsonxivulon: we go with CD-only for beta and land the changes immediately after beta03:07
cjwatsonthere is a period between beta and release when we go back to "merely" feature freeze03:07
cjwatsonand that's a reasonable time to land this sort of thing03:07
xivulondoesn't that mean that wubi should not be in the final?03:07
cjwatsonbut right now, we're in beta freeze, and the only fixes we can make are those which are critical to the beta03:08
cjwatsonxivulon: I don't see why, if it works in the must-have-a-CD-in-the-drive mode for beta03:08
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xivulonYou mean we only enable the CD-only mode03:09
cjwatsonright03:09
xivulonSo we only have wubi03:09
cjwatsonblink?03:09
cjwatsonoh, I'm not religious about ripping it out, we can release-note that something doesn't work03:09
cjwatsonthat's ok03:09
cjwatsonlet me reiterate03:10
cjwatsonwe have six days03:10
cjwatsonthere will be bugs left at the end03:10
xivuloncjwatson I do not mind whatever you decide.03:10
cjwatsonthe key is to get the most important paths tested and working03:10
xivulonI am only need a bit of planning, for instance if there is no loopinstallation support, I'll have to resume the dynamic patching mechanism in the standalone version03:11
cjwatsonso with my archive and release hat on I'm working to get the unionfs fixes through03:11
xivulonwhich means I have to ship my own initrd and so on...03:11
cjwatsonwith my cdimage hat on I'll be running round rebuilding images this afternoon03:11
cjwatsoncan you not live with needing a daily build slightly after beta?03:11
cjwatsonI mean it's not like the images have worked for a while ...03:12
xivulonI think more in terms of the final, beta or not is not a big issue at all.03:13
cjwatsonor are you going to have users beating down your door asking why wubi-installer.org doesn't support 7.10 beta?03:14
xivulonNo that's not an issue03:14
xivulonI can have the wubi.exe point at a daily build instead of the beta03:14
xivulonThat is what it does now03:14
xivulonThe issue is that if there is no loppinstallation support in the final ISO, I will not be able to point them anywhere else03:15
xivulonAnd I will have to maintain my own initrd again wich patches the ISO on the fly.03:16
cjwatsonok, I'm keen to avoid you doing that03:18
cjwatsonand I don't think it will be necessary03:19
cjwatsonthe lupin patch is in bzr, and the partman-auto-loop patch is in place in my local tree now pending me thinking about it a bit more03:19
cjwatsonit should all be ready for right after beta03:19
xivulonanother minor issue was that ubiquity seemed to ignore atomatic-ubiquity flag and I just landed on the desktop (did not check whether xinit-ubiquity was in place)03:20
xivuloncjwatson, it would be good if the initrd could support some external hooks "pre_mount=/path/to/premount.sh" and "post_mount=/path/to/postmount.sh"03:22
xivulonBut I guess it's late for that too03:24
cjwatsonautomatic-ubiquity should be fixed finally in 1.5.1603:41
cjwatsontaken a few goes, that03:41
cjwatsontalk to me about hooks after beta :)03:41
xivulonthanks03:42
xivulonthe hooks are an emergency thing so that if I can override a few initrd/iso files without having to ship a whoule new thing03:43
cjwatsonnod03:43
cjwatsonsomebody else asked for that too I think - will try to come up with something generic03:43
xivuloncjwatson, do you think you can push out an ISO build with all the patches?03:45
xivulonI will be travelling this w/e and will not have much time (and probably zero connectivity), having an ISO to play with might help03:45
xivulonBy the way, lupin-casper already provides external hooks... ;P03:47
cjwatsonyou mean all the other patches up to now, or the post-beta ones?03:52
cjwatsonI can't do post-beta stuff yet, but we'll be building new CDs today as soon as all the necessary stuff is in the archive03:53
xivuloncjwatson, I mean that current lupin version supports importing early_command.sh and late_command.sh03:53
cjwatson14:45 <xivulon> cjwatson, do you think you can push out an ISO build with all the patches?03:53
cjwatsonI was replying to that03:53
xivulonre ISO build, yes I mean post beta stuff, with any patch that might be relevant to lupin/wubi (including automatic-ubiquity)03:54
xivulonre Lupin, now that I think of it, Lupin can support early_command.sh. That is enough to override the ISO.03:55
xivulonSo even if you decide not to push in partman-autoloop, I can add it later on, provided lupin is available in the ISO03:55
cjwatsonlupin will be there03:56
cjwatsonautomatic-ubiquity should work, but still needs testing03:57
xivulonEven in the beta?03:57
cjwatsonsame way it is in current daily builds ...03:57
cjwatsonthe lupin patches we've been talking about today, unlikely03:57
cjwatsonbut lupin in general, sure03:57
xivuloncjwatson, to simplify testing in the coming days, I'd like you to reconsider having the latest lupin patches (with that I can patch partman on the fly, but changing the initrd is not as convenient), also it would be good to have all other "post-beta" patches in one place04:24
xivulonIdeally the patches should be as an override folder that can simply be extracted on top of the mounted ISO by early_command04:26
xivulonWould something like that be feasible?04:26
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cjwatsonxivulon: you already have early_command so there is nothing to do there, as far as I know04:28
cjwatsonok, *sigh*, I'll see if I can push through the /isodevice move-mounting stuff04:29
xivulonThanks, without that, I'd need to push out a separate initrd04:29
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xivulonAs for the post-beta folder, that has not to be anything formal, just a folder where you dump files and packages that did not make the ISO, which probably means partman-auto-loop and automatic-ubiquity.04:32
xivulonThat ultimately might reduce your workload since you'd have to worry about a single ISO, and it would speed and simplify lupin/wubi testing, since we could easily apply changes on the fly and do not have to wait for special ISOs04:34
cjwatsonno, I don't want to do that sorry04:36
cjwatsonwe'll just do updated builds04:36
cjwatsonearly_command hooks can of course create whatever they want themselves04:36
xivulonI think we are saying the same thing.04:37
xivulonYou just do official builds, simply let me know what relevant lupin packages you left out04:38
cjwatsonI can certainly mention fixes04:38
xivulonI'll take care of the override folder04:38
cjwatsonlupin uploading with the /isodevice changes04:43
xivulonnice05:16
xivulonWhen will the ISO with that be ready?05:28
cjwatsonpublisher + publisher + CD build + random slack for shit that goes wrong05:29
cjwatsonoh and include live filesystem build05:29
cjwatson+ time for Soyuz to wake up and schedule builds + binary build time05:30
cjwatsonno less than 2.5 hours, probably a bit more05:30
xivulonThat's more than good enough, I am leaving tomorrow morning so I can download tonight05:30
xivulonCan you also put somewhere your local patched version of partman autoloop and auto ubiquity?05:32
cjwatsonlike I said, automatic-ubiquity should work in the next build, as far as I know05:32
xivulonmissed that bit, great -105:33
cjwatsonI'll give you the codebrowse link for partman-auto-loop once I've committed it and you can use that05:33
xivulonAnything else I'd need you can think of? lupin-support is on the ISO?05:34
cjwatsonyeah05:34
cjwatsonI'm off for a while, since the publisher is churning on manual and CDs will build after that; evand has my phone number if the universe is collapsing05:35
xivulonThanks a lot for everything, and sorry for the trouble05:35
cjwatsonit's ok05:35
cjwatsonI hope this build will work :)05:35
xivulonme too05:35
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xivulonBy the way, in anyone wants to try wubi/lupin, to go around current issues, burn a CD, start wubi normally and select 4GB installation, before rebooting edit /ubuntu/install/grub/menu.lst and remove find_iso=XYZ05:43
xivulonDo not boot with the CD inserted, pop it in when requested05:45
xivulonThis will force use a physical CD instead of an ISO on HD which at the moments creates problems. Haven't tried that personally but in theory you should be able to go through the loopinstallation.05:46
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evandbug #1: no mouse when starting straight into ubiquity08:52
xivuloncjwatson, do you have updated partman-auto-loop sources?09:17
cjwatsonno09:20
cjwatsonevand: blink09:20
xivulonyou mentioned you patched your local branch could you pls email me autopartition-loop?09:21
evandcjwatson: yeah, not sure what's causing it yet.  Trying to get it running in automatic mode first.09:22
cjwatsonxivulon: please, when I am confident in it I'll check it in and e-mail it to you09:22
cjwatsonI don't want to mail about half-broken copies and waste your time09:23
xivuloncjwatson, it's only because I'll be away this w/e and I am not sure about network connectivity, so I could at least work on something09:23
xivulondoes not matter if it's half done, better that today that something on monday09:23
cjwatsonhttp://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/tmp/autopartition-loop but if it's broken I warned you :P09:24
cjwatsoner, in a moment, scp hasn't finished09:24
xivulongreat09:24
cjwatsonit's there now09:25
evandspeaking of broken autopartition-loop ;)09:25
cjwatsonevand: what broke?09:26
evandit's sitting there.  It doesn't seem to like me stracing it either.09:26
evandbut that's probably an error on my part09:26
xivulonare you testing with loopinstallation?09:26
xivuloncheck if /host is mounted09:27
evandxivulon: it is mounted09:27
evand /host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk09:27
xivulonwhat I mean, is /host on a device or is sitting inside of the ramdisk?09:27
xivulondo you see it in /proc/mounts09:28
evandah, it's on /09:28
xivulonthen it's blocking because you are out of ram probably09:28
cjwatsonright, question is why it didn't get mounted09:28
evandyou're good :)09:28
cjwatsondid wubi sit for ages downloading an iso?09:28
xivulonThat is the patch I submitted09:28
xivulonit's not mounted because the target partition is the one hosting the ISO09:29
xivulonwhich means that the target partition is already mounted09:29
cjwatsonxivulon: not so much, it's a bug if it gets that far09:29
xivulonwhich means that mount.d/70basic fails09:29
evandyeah, I'm using the old wubi.exe.  I'll update.09:29
cjwatsonit shouldn't be using an ISO, it should be using the CD09:29
evandsorry for the false alarm09:29
cjwatsonah, that would be it09:29
cjwatsonxivulon: no, mount.d/70basic failed for an entirely different reason which I fixed09:30
cjwatsonnothing to do with the ISO being on the target partition09:30
evandthough, I did find one more bug09:30
evandwe need to set UBIQUITY_AUTOMATIC in environ09:30
cjwatsonI thought ubiquity did that itself09:30
cjwatsonif you pass --automatic09:30
evandit does09:31
evandbut we're not passing --automatic in ubiquity-dm, are we?09:31
cjwatsonoh, but we don't call it with --automatic09:31
cjwatsonI wonder why not09:31
cjwatsonI think that's a bug09:31
xivulonevand, I did not understand if you are using an ISO or the CD09:32
cjwatsonevand: what does it break?09:32
cjwatsonbecause I saw the "checking installation" progress bar when I tried it09:32
cjwatsonwhich made me assume that it was in automatic mode09:32
evandoh, hrm09:32
evandthat does mean it's in automatic mode09:32
cjwatsonoh, except maybe I was running ubiquity by hand09:32
cjwatsonyou might want to ignore me09:32
evandxivulon: I was using an iso, I'm going to grab the latest wubi now to fix that.09:33
cjwatsonI'll upload a fix tonight09:33
CIA-18ubiquity: cjwatson * r2250 ubiquity/debian/ (changelog init):09:33
CIA-18ubiquity: * Use the --automatic option when running ubiquity from the init script09:33
CIA-18ubiquity:  (thanks, Evan Dandrea).09:33
xivuloncjwatson, is it now possible to target the partition hosting the ISOs now?09:33
cjwatsonxivulon: if booting from the CD09:34
xivulonwhich means no09:34
cjwatsoncorrect09:34
evandthanks cjwatson09:34
xivulonSo evand you can run Wubi and pick 4GB09:34
xivulonThen before rebooting edit install/boot/grub/menu.lst09:34
xivulonand remove find_iso=*09:34
xivulonThat will be identical to a real wubi loopinstallation except that the CD will be used09:35
xivulonReboot without the CD and only insert that when requested to do so09:35
evandxivulon: ok, thanks09:36
xivuloncjwatson, out of curiosity what was the mount.d bug you referred to?09:36
cjwatsonxivulon: partman-auto-loop wasn't reading all the output from fstab.d scripts09:36
cjwatsonso it started a second one before the first one had finished, and they fought09:37
xivulonah09:37
cjwatsonoh, hmm, sorry, I was confusing fstab.d and mount.d; you were right about mount.d/70basic09:37
cjwatsonsorry, I have a lot of things going on at once and this is only one of them :-/09:37
xivulonI am always right 8)09:38
xivulonbrb09:38
evandcjwatson: not to add something else to the pile, but did you notice that jdong is still experiencing unionfs issues?09:38
CIA-18ubiquity: cjwatson * r2251 ubiquity/ (configure configure.ac): bump to 1.5.1709:38
evandhe's updating the original bug report with his logs, so I imagine pkl will see that.09:38
cjwatsonevand: yeah, I didn't notice them in my own tests so it isn't universal, but do explicitly mention it to pkl in case he can make something of it09:40
evandwill do09:40
evandI didn't notice it either, fwiw09:40
cjwatsondon't rely on bug mail, he's on the kernel team so probably gets stacks of it09:41
evandwell, his name was also mentioned with it a few times in #ubuntu-devel, but I'll msg him directly09:41
cjwatsonI'd mention it in the private #kernel09:43
cjwatsonless noise09:43
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evand...I swear, windows updates occur more often than gutsy updates09:43
xivulonback09:45
xivulonwhat are the default boot parameters of "safe graphic mode"?09:48
cjwatsonxivulon: this thing is still trying to download an ISO09:54
cjwatsontoday's build09:54
evandodd, not here unless it did it quite quickly09:55
cjwatsonI can't afford to download the ISO every time, the last test took hours09:55
cjwatsonit says it's rev 29109:56
cjwatsonxivulon: safe graphics mode adds the 'xforcevesa' parameter09:56
cjwatsonxivulon: is there anything I can do to help you debug why this can't seem to detect the CD?09:57
evandcjwatson: yeah, same here.  Odd.09:57
cjwatsonI was booting without network connectivity (more or less by chance, I'd carried the laptop downstairs so I could make coffee and watch it) and of course it got stuck09:57
evandhrm, I'll give it another try with networking disabled as soon as I see if it gets any further on the ubuntu end this time.09:58
xivulonI am having a look09:58
xivulonif you want to debug launch wubi --debug09:59
cjwatsonyep, if it's connected to a network it starts downloading09:59
cjwatsonok09:59
xivulonyou should see lots of message bogs09:59
xivulonit will look for the CD twice09:59
xivulonat the beginning09:59
xivulonand after you click install09:59
xivulonif it fails to detect it it will give you an explanation09:59
cjwatsonsays 'isvalid Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" - Alpha i386 (20070921.1)' 'cdinfo=Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" - Alpha i386 (20070921.1) cdversion=7.10 cddistro=Ubuntu cdarch=i386 cdcodename=Gutsy Gibbon cdsubversion=Alpha'10:01
cjwatson(continuing)10:01
cjwatson'success Ubuntu 7.10 <blah>'10:01
cjwatson'cddrive=E:\'10:01
cjwatsonand then pops up setup10:01
cjwatsonwish I could c&p this10:02
cjwatsonah, makeimg fails10:02
cjwatsonUsing device \\.\E:10:02
cjwatsonError: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.10:02
cjwatsonthe thing it's trying to run is ...\makeimg.exe -o C:\ubuntu\install\gutsy-desktop-i386.iso -i E:10:03
xivulonis the sleep 3000 in there?10:03
cjwatsondidn't see any sleep 300010:03
cjwatsonbut I didn't look at the code10:03
cjwatsonit's rev 29110:03
xivulonchecking10:03
cjwatsonwhy does it need to copy the .iso to the hard disk?10:03
xivulonIf you use read-only mode or loopinstallation, so that the CD can be ejected and we can avoid booting from CD10:04
cjwatsonI wasn't though, I'd selected 7 GB10:04
cjwatson(the default here)10:04
xivulonyeah that is loopinstallation10:05
cjwatsonoh10:05
xivulonthe size is calculated based on free disk space10:05
cjwatsonperhaps we could just skip that for now and document the awkwardness, then?10:05
cjwatsonunless you have a good idea on how to fix this10:05
xivulonsleep 3000 is there it was sufficient in my case, but I was using CD emulator10:06
cjwatsonwhat's the other process using the CD, do you think?10:06
xivulonThe only time we use the CD is to read .disk/info10:07
cjwatsonI have Explorer open ...10:07
cjwatsoncould it be that?10:07
xivulonpossibly10:07
evandhttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Filemon.mspx ?10:08
cjwatsonnope, closing Explorer didn't help10:08
xivulonLet me try to do a buidl with sleep 1000010:09
xivulonmake it 3000010:09
cjwatsonwell, what is it that's accessing the disk?10:09
cjwatsonif it's wubi itself, then I don't see how sleep would help10:09
cjwatsonthat should all be synchronous, surely10:09
xivulonhmm it did help in my case10:09
cjwatsonare you certain that you're properly closing the CD device?10:10
xivulonI am only using the default readfile command10:10
xivulonwill check if there is a second command to use close cleanly10:10
evandmouse works again, false alarm there10:10
xivuloncjwatson, instead of me increasing the sleep time, simply use a --debug, and leave the last message open for 30 secs10:11
xivulonalternative workaround is to download the ISO and place it in the same folder where wubi.exe is10:11
xivulonThe ISO has to be called gutsy-desktop-i386.iso10:12
cjwatsonwhich last message should I leave open?10:12
cjwatsonI'm running out of time, my wife wants me downstairs for DVD watching10:12
xivulonThe one before "makeimg" do not remember which one it is10:14
xivulonHmm I do call FileClose (wubi/inspector/detect_iso.nsh #113) and I cannot think of any other time when I use the CD10:14
cjwatsonwubi itself is running from the CD10:15
cjwatsonwouldn't that be enough to lock it?10:15
xivulonah that's more likely10:15
xivuloncan you try running off hd?10:16
cjwatsonyeah10:16
cjwatsonit's sitting at "Retrieving installation files" ...10:17
xivulonit takes a few secs10:18
xivulonit has to copy the full CD10:18
cjwatsonoh, of course10:18
xivulonwe will have a proper progress bar10:18
cjwatsonok10:18
cjwatsonthis doesn't sound workable if wubi can't copy the CD because it's locked though10:18
cjwatsonthe standard mode of operation will be to run wubi from the CD10:19
xivulonI was thinking of a workaround10:19
cjwatsonwe may have to come up with a different option10:19
evandcopy the executable to the drive then run it from there, in code?10:19
cjwatsonanyway, I really have to run for a bit, back later10:19
xivulonfor instance wrapping wubi in a 7z selfextracting file10:19
xivulonso when you run wubi it first extracts to some tmp folder and then runs it10:19
cjwatsonevand: I'd rather have wubi get the system to boot from the hard disk next time, bypassing the CD10:19
cjwatsonsame way instlux can get the system to boot from the CD next time10:20
cjwatsonor perhaps leave a note somewhere on the disk that causes gfxboot to go straight to booting from the hard disk10:20
cjwatsonthat sounds doable10:20
cjwatsonok, wubi completed, I'll try the rest later :)10:20
cjwatsonthanks10:20
xivulongood10:20
xivulonnext time it will be quicker since it will reuse the ISO10:20
evandok10:21
xivuloncjwatson, just try to set the bios to start from HD, then select Use CD in wubi and see if it works well for booting10:22
xivulonWe will have a look to see if the requirement of the CD not being in use can be loosened up10:27
xivuloninstlux and debian installer by the way work the same way as wubi when it comes to booting: grub4dos + local kernel/initrd10:28
superm1cjwatson, could you point me at what's involved with making a mythbuntu task?10:56
superm1i saw how ubuntu studio's show up in synaptic now10:56
superm1is it just a matter of adding the task to the top of the seed file in bzr and poking someone?10:59
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cjwatsonnope, partman-auto-loop still hosed11:57
cjwatsonI know why though, it's using move-mount syntax that busybox likes but util-linux doesn't11:57
cjwatsonI'll hack around it11:57
evandI can't even get that far.  No matter what I do, I can't seem to get the host system mounted at startup.12:01
cjwatsonit's not supposed to be mounted when you boot the live filesystem12:03
cjwatsonpartman-auto-loop deals with mounting it, at least when booting from CD12:03
=== evand bangs head on desk
evandat least it's broken anyway :)12:04

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