[00:21] <joshk> evand: i'm gonna shoot you an email. FYI, what i'm doing is for VMware integration
[00:21] <joshk> we want to be able to install Ubuntu as soon as somebody puts in a CD
[00:22] <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
[00:47] <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
[00:48] <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="$(echo "GET preseed/early_command" | chroot /root debconf-communicate -fnoninteractive casper)"
[00:48] <cjwatson> is the code ...
[00:49] <joshk> ah
[00:49] <cjwatson> and before that it does chroot /root debconf-set-selections < "/root$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?
[00:50] <joshk> there are reasons behind why I can't remaster the entire ISO and just put the preseed file on there
[00:51] <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
[00:52] <cjwatson> please file a bug on casper to make this either (a) easier or (b) more documented or (c) both
[01:15] <joshk> okay
[01:20] <joshk> oh my god
[01:20] <joshk> you're right
[01:20] <joshk> this could work
[01:20] <joshk> that's really, really gross.
[01:33]  * joshk masters an ISO with -V casper-rw despite the fact that it most definitely is not rw
[01:48] <joshk> wow, that didn't work..
[01:53] <joshk> oh man.
[03:45] <joshk> cjwatson: i'll file that bug soonish, thanks for your help so far