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| jgonzalez | hi there, is this the right channel to do questions about doing automated installations using preseeding? | 12:39 |
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| cjwatson | jgonzalez: yep | 12:40 |
| jgonzalez | sorry to reapear the question, I got disconnected... | 12:46 |
| jgonzalez | hi there, is this the right channel to do questions about doing automated installations using preseeding? | 12:46 |
| soren | It is. | 12:48 |
| jgonzalez | I'm trying to automate installation of servers for my customers, so I provide default values for almost everything but things like hostname and domain. Domain seems to be a medium priority question, so I don't get the chance to change it unless I specify debconf=medium, but in that case I get the installer menu and the installation is no longer automatic... is there any way to change the priority of a question using preseeding? | 12:50 |
| cjwatson | firstly, no | 12:53 |
| cjwatson | secondly, priority isn't relevant to whether you can preseed something | 12:53 |
| cjwatson | thirdly, you're probably running into http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343269, unfortunately | 12:54 |
| ubotu | Debian bug 343269 in netcfg "hostname/domain name preseeding is quite broken" [Normal,Open] | 12:54 |
| cjwatson | unless you're trying to provide a default but intentionally have the question asked to whoever's monitoring the installation? | 12:54 |
| cjwatson | unfortunately that isn't possible at the moment; 8.04 will be better in this regard because it asks the domain question at priority high if you're doing static network configuration | 12:55 |
| jgonzalez | that's what I'm trying to do... I provide a meaningless default, and I want hostname and domain to be filled up in every installation | 12:56 |
| jgonzalez | is there any way to do this? | 12:56 |
| jgonzalez | so there's no way to fix this using 7.10? | 12:58 |
| cjwatson | jgonzalez: one moment | 12:58 |
| cjwatson | jgonzalez: are you installing from the network or from a CD? | 12:58 |
| jgonzalez | from a CD | 12:58 |
| jgonzalez | I use chained preseeding | 12:58 |
| jgonzalez | a pressed file in the CD and another one from the Internet | 12:59 |
| cjwatson | wow, complex | 12:59 |
| cjwatson | ok | 12:59 |
| jgonzalez | I just wanted to avoid having to burn new CDs if we change anything in the default values | 12:59 |
| cjwatson | jgonzalez: are you using DHCP or static configuration? | 12:59 |
| jgonzalez | static | 12:59 |
| jgonzalez | in the CD preseeding file I just preseed the network providing default values and asking the questions any way (seen false) | 13:00 |
| jgonzalez | I preseed the rest in the file located in the Internet | 13:01 |
| cjwatson | jgonzalez: ok, a very nasty approach is to have preseed/early_command re-ask the question by hand | 13:03 |
| cjwatson | something like this: | 13:03 |
| cjwatson | . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule | 13:03 |
| cjwatson | db_input critical netcfg/get_hostname | 13:04 |
| cjwatson | HOSTNAME="$RET" | 13:04 |
| cjwatson | db_input critical netcfg/get_domain | 13:04 |
| cjwatson | DOMAIN="$RET" | 13:04 |
| jgonzalez | umm... should I save the last 5 lines as a shell script and invoke it using early_command? | 13:05 |
| cjwatson | and then substitute $HOSTNAME and $DOMAIN back into at least /etc/network/interfaces, /etc/hostname, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts | 13:05 |
| cjwatson | you'll probably want to make your dummy preseeded ones be easily substitutable using 'sed -i' | 13:05 |
| cjwatson | shell script> yes | 13:05 |
| jgonzalez | and then another script making the substitutions and invoked using late_command? | 13:06 |
| cjwatson | something like 'sed -i "s/DUMMYHOSTNAME/$HOSTNAME/g; s/DUMMYDOMAIN/$DOMAIN/g" /etc/network/interfaces /etc/hostname /etc/resolv.conf /etc/hosts' | 13:06 |
| cjwatson | no, it has to be in the same script | 13:06 |
| cjwatson | you might need to wrap that in a loop to detect whether the files exist | 13:06 |
| jgonzalez | buf... I guess you can't turn 8.04 into 8.03, can you? :P | 13:07 |
| cjwatson | no :-) | 13:07 |
| cjwatson | if you're wondering why this is in early_command that's because this is editing the files used by the installer itself which are then copied over to the target system later | 13:07 |
| jgonzalez | yes, I guessed so | 13:07 |
| jgonzalez | ok, I'll try it, thank you very much | 13:08 |
| cjwatson | let me produce a better version | 13:08 |
| cjwatson | the suggestion above is a bit buggy | 13:08 |
| cjwatson | http://paste.ubuntu.com/4709/ should be a bit better | 13:09 |
| cjwatson | totally untested though | 13:09 |
| jgonzalez | ok, I'll give it a try, thank you very much | 13:10 |
| xivulon | Would it be possible to append (cat) the md5sum of an ISO to the ISO file itself? So that the last n bytes are the checksum of the preceeding chunk? | 13:31 |
| cjwatson | it *might* be technically possible but who knows what a non-standard approach like that would break | 13:38 |
| cjwatson | a phenomenal amount of software deals with ISO-9660 file systems and trying to invent extensions in ways not provided by the standard isn't a good plan IMO | 13:39 |
| xivulon | agreed | 13:48 |
| xivulon | would you say that if I check squashfs.filesystem I should catch most of the issues with corrupted CDs? | 13:50 |
| cjwatson | yes | 13:54 |
| xivulon | good | 13:54 |
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| xivulon | Other cryptoquestion, it would be nice to verify remote metalinks. I was thinking of using a cross-compiled version of gpgv with a keyring embedded within wubi. | 14:40 |
| xivulon | Then always download XYZ.metalink + XYZ.metalink.sig. Is such approach reasonable? | 14:41 |
| jgonzalez | where should I put scripts invoked using preseed/early_command or preseed/late_command? | 14:59 |
| cjwatson | jgonzalez: I'd use /tmp | 14:59 |
| jgonzalez | cjwatson... can I include the script in the remastered CD and invoke it using a full path? kind of /cdrom/whatever/script.sh | 15:00 |
| cjwatson | sure | 15:00 |
| jgonzalez | ummm | 15:01 |
| jgonzalez | what about hosting the script in the same place where the second preseed file is? I mean kind of http://myserver.com/path/to/script.sh? would that work? | 15:02 |
| jgonzalez | no answer :) gonna try it | 15:03 |
| cjwatson | no, that won't work, though you can have a trivial wrapper in early_command that wgets something and then runs it | 15:04 |
| cjwatson | p.s. a one-minute delay isn't "no answer" ... | 15:05 |
| jgonzalez | cjwatson, sorry, wans't my intention, I appreciate a lot your help :) | 15:05 |
| cjwatson | :) | 15:06 |
| saispo | hi | 16:12 |
| saispo | cjwatson: it's possible to deactivate automatic generation of xorg.conf in the debian installer ? my metapackage install it and write an xorg.conf automaticaly... | 16:13 |
| cjwatson | saispo: that's not an installer function as such; the xserver-xorg package does it in its postinst | 16:40 |
| cjwatson | saispo: I don't think there is, and I think you should probably just write over it after xserver-xorg has been installed; but for an authoritative answer you should consult the X team | 16:40 |
| saispo | ok, thanks, i try with some directive in preseed, will test :) | 16:42 |
| jgonzalez | cjwatson: I've tried using the script you gave me, but it doesn't seem to do anything | 16:48 |
| cjwatson | jgonzalez: ok, boot with DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer and also put 'set -x' near the top of the script and it should give you a trace | 16:49 |
| cjwatson | (in /var/log/syslog) | 16:49 |
| jgonzalez | I guess this is correct: d-i preseed/early_command string wget -O /tmp/configure-hostname-domain.sh \ | 16:49 |
| jgonzalez | 11 http://puppet.openinput.com/preseed/ubuntu/gutsy/configure-hostname-domain.sh; \ | 16:49 |
| jgonzalez | 12 chmod +x /tmp/configure-hostname-domain.sh; /tmp/configure-hostname-domain.sh | 16:49 |
| jgonzalez | gonna try to debug it | 16:50 |
| jgonzalez | Another question: I'm doing LVM, and if I try to reinstall I machine I've previously installed it fails because it founds a duplicate volume name group, any idea? | 16:51 |
| cjwatson | I think at present you'll need to explicitly delete the volume group using the LVM tools from early_command | 16:54 |
| === ebel_ is now known as ebel | ||
| jgonzalez | ok... regarding the script issue... does "<-- 30 question skipped" mean anything? | 16:56 |
| jgonzalez | it seems the script gets executed, but it doesn't prompt for values, it uses the values provided in the preseed file | 16:57 |
| cjwatson | ah | 17:00 |
| cjwatson | put 'db_fset netcfg/get_hostname seen false' before 'db_input critical netcfg/get_hostname', and similarly for get_domain | 17:01 |
| jgonzalez | cjwatson: ok, now it works, thanks a lot :) | 17:04 |
| jgonzalez | about the LVM problem... it's quite annoying: I lvremove all volumes, vgremove all groups, and the with fdisk I remove all partitions, I go back to hard disk detection and the complains about "no root file system detected" or something like that (using spanish installation). If I reboot the machine the it works ok | 17:08 |
| jgonzalez | s/the/then | 17:09 |
| === cjwatson_ is now known as cjwatson | ||
| cjwatson | jgonzalez: cool | 17:13 |
| jgonzalez | $ echo "r00tme" | mkpasswd -s -H MD5 <- Is this correct to generate encrypted passwords to include them in the preseed file? Mine doesn't seem to be working | 17:20 |
| cjwatson | sounds ok ... | 17:28 |
| cjwatson | you're just setting passwd/user-password-crypted to the encrypted text, right? | 17:28 |
| cjwatson | or root-password-crypted | 17:29 |
| cjwatson | if the latter, you will also need to set 'd-i passwd/root-login boolean true' | 17:29 |
| jgonzalez | user-password | 17:33 |
| jgonzalez | I'm trying tight now with a shorter one, to check if it was my fault while typing | 17:34 |
| jgonzalez | s/tight/right/ | 17:34 |
| jgonzalez | does pkgsel/include only work with package included in the CD? If so I guess that to install any package not included in the CD you must use late_command, right? | 17:44 |
| cjwatson | jgonzalez: right, afraid so | 17:59 |
| cjwatson | though strictly speaking that's maybe a bug; pkgsel/include can only be triggered by hand and it's probably ok to have that go to the network | 18:00 |
| jgonzalez | so I'll have to do something like in-target aptitude install whatever package? | 18:01 |
| cjwatson | right | 18:01 |
| jgonzalez | another question | 18:01 |
| jgonzalez | should tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard install openoffice and gnome???? | 18:01 |
| CIA-44 | pkgsel: cjwatson * r100 ubuntu/debian/ (changelog postinst): | 18:01 |
| CIA-44 | pkgsel: * Move final sources.list into place before processing pkgsel/include, so | 18:01 |
| CIA-44 | pkgsel: that you can use that to install packages not on the CD. | 18:01 |
| CIA-44 | pkgsel: cjwatson * r101 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 0.16ubuntu2 | 18:02 |
| cjwatson | jgonzalez: it doesn't, but the language pack installation shortly afterwards does. preseed 'd-i pkgsel/install-language-support boolean false' | 18:03 |
| cjwatson | and 'd-i pkgsel/language-pack-patterns string' too | 18:04 |
| jgonzalez | hmmm, so in 8.04 I'll be able to use pkgsel/include to install packages not included in the CD? | 18:04 |
| soren | a | 18:04 |
| soren | gah | 18:04 |
| jgonzalez | :S a-gah = yes???? :) | 18:05 |
| cjwatson | jgonzalez: yes | 18:06 |
| cjwatson | though I'm sure that's not what soren meant to mistype | 18:06 |
| jgonzalez | :) | 18:07 |
| jgonzalez | I have just noticed that the LVM recipe wasn't correctly selected... I'm using 'd-i partman/choose_partition select Finalizar el particionado y escribir los cambios en el disco' (spanish translation, of course I select the spanish locale in the beginning using a kernel parameter) | 18:14 |
| jgonzalez | ops | 18:14 |
| jgonzalez | I meant 'd-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select Separar particiones /home, /usr, /var y /tmp' | 18:15 |
| jgonzalez | lvscan only shows root and swap_1 | 18:16 |
| jgonzalez | any idea on this? I've noticed that this option only shows when using the expert mode, but this shouldn't be a problem when using preseeding, right? | 18:25 |
| cjwatson | the current translation actually seems to be /usr/ not /usr | 18:39 |
| cjwatson | it has to match exactly | 18:40 |
| cjwatson | that whole interface with translated strings is rather unfortunate; there's a bug about it | 18:40 |
| === ebel_ is now known as ebel | ||
| cjwatson | evand: any progress with getting the ubiquity-preserve-home bug fixed? | 22:48 |
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