| joshk | evand: i'm gonna shoot you an email. FYI, what i'm doing is for VMware integration | 00:21 |
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| joshk | we want to be able to install Ubuntu as soon as somebody puts in a CD | 00:21 |
| joshk | asking a minimal number of questions in the VMware UI and generating preseed file and using it | 00:22 |
| joshk | we already have this support for RH | 00:22 |
| cjwatson | joshk: I think you'll need to put preseed/early_command in the preseed file you give with file=, not put it on the command line | 00:47 |
| cjwatson | if you do that it should work and you'll have no spacing problems | 00:48 |
| cjwatson | casper doesn't parse early_command from the command line | 00:48 |
| joshk | surprisingly, it tries to, somehow | 00:48 |
| joshk | i just tried it with a gutsy desktop ISO | 00:48 |
| cjwatson | reply="$(echo "GET preseed/early_command" | chroot /root debconf-communicate -fnoninteractive casper)" | 00:48 |
| cjwatson | is the code ... | 00:48 |
| joshk | ah | 00:49 |
| cjwatson | and before that it does chroot /root debconf-set-selections < "/root$location" | 00:49 |
| cjwatson | it might be trying to do something, but I'm pretty sure it's not the right thing | 00:49 |
| joshk | so back to the first question. I have my preseed file on /dev/cdrom1, is it possible to point preseed there? | 00:49 |
| joshk | there are reasons behind why I can't remaster the entire ISO and just put the preseed file on there | 00:50 |
| cjwatson | urr. I have to admit I'm not sure offhand. you'd need to persuade casper to mount it somewhere - maybe by faking it being a device used for persistency? | 00:51 |
| cjwatson | casper/scripts/casper would be the thing to read | 00:51 |
| joshk | hm | 00:51 |
| cjwatson | please file a bug on casper to make this either (a) easier or (b) more documented or (c) both | 00:52 |
| joshk | okay | 01:15 |
| joshk | oh my god | 01:20 |
| joshk | you're right | 01:20 |
| joshk | this could work | 01:20 |
| joshk | that's really, really gross. | 01:20 |
| * joshk masters an ISO with -V casper-rw despite the fact that it most definitely is not rw | 01:33 | |
| joshk | wow, that didn't work.. | 01:48 |
| joshk | oh man. | 01:53 |
| joshk | cjwatson: i'll file that bug soonish, thanks for your help so far | 03:45 |
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