| mkrueger | does anybody know how to suppress the "low warning" message on a customized dapper i386 server install? | 06:00 |
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| tmmoyer | I've compiled a kernel for the installer, which also generated a bunch of udebs. When I put them on the CD, in the main and rebuild the repository on the cd using apt-ftparchive it appears that the udebs are not found and used by the installer because it cannot find a NIC or any disks to partition. Do I need to put the kernel udebs in a special location similar to ubuntu-keyring needing to be in main? | 12:57 |
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| cjwatson | tmmoyer: they should be found as long as they're in the pool and properly referred to by /cdrom/dists/RELEASE/main/debian-installer/binary-ARCH/Packages | 13:16 |
| cjwatson | (.gz, etc.) | 13:16 |
| cjwatson | tmmoyer: did you change the kernel module ABI (the -16- part) by any chance? | 13:17 |
| tmmoyer | no | 13:17 |
| tmmoyer | i added a single patch and used dch -n to change the version and then built using the instructions on the wiki | 13:17 |
| tmmoyer | unless the patch changed the ABI but I'm 99.999% positive that it did not | 13:19 |
| cjwatson | could you extract /var/log/syslog and stick it up somewhere? it should have some clues | 13:19 |
| tmmoyer | from the installer? | 13:19 |
| tmmoyer | yeah I can do that | 13:19 |
| cjwatson | from the installer, yes | 13:20 |
| tmmoyer | it would appear that putting the udebs in pool/main/l/linux worked | 13:21 |
| cjwatson | they can be anywhere as long as it corresponds to what's in the Filename field in the Packages files | 13:22 |
| tmmoyer | one other problem with getting to /var/log/syslog is that I have disabled the consoles other than 1 and 4 | 13:22 |
| cjwatson | back up to installer main menu, select "execute a shell" | 13:22 |
| tmmoyer | yeah but hey as long as it is working I'm not too picky | 13:22 |
| tmmoyer | thank you very much for the help | 13:26 |
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| tmmoyer | i have specified a preseed file in isolinux.cfg, but the installer is not picking it up. if I get the the installer menu and mount the cd first, then have it try to load my preseed file it works fine. how do I get it pick up the preseed file from the beginning? the line in isolinux.cfg is : append file=/cdrom/preseed/shamon-installer.seed initrd=/install/initrd_shamon.gz quiet selinux=0 ima=1 debian-installer/locale=en_US kbd-chooser/meth | 17:03 |
| tmmoyer | it seem that the CD is not mounted early enough for my preseed file to be seen | 17:04 |
| cjwatson | are you netbooting the installer? | 17:04 |
| tmmoyer | nope | 17:04 |
| tmmoyer | this is a CD install | 17:04 |
| tmmoyer | should I put the preseed in the initrd> | 17:05 |
| tmmoyer | ? | 17:05 |
| cjwatson | *blink* that's really odd because how you describe doing it is how our CDs work | 17:05 |
| cjwatson | could you post syslog? | 17:05 |
| cjwatson | which initrd build did you use? | 17:05 |
| tmmoyer | i used the debian-installer make build_cdrom_isolinux from the debian-installer package | 17:05 |
| cjwatson | should be fine | 17:06 |
| tmmoyer | i will get the syslog right now | 17:06 |
| tmmoyer | what would be an easy method of getting the syslog to another machine? | 17:09 |
| cjwatson | "save debug logs" from the main menu is usually the easiest way | 17:11 |
| cjwatson | if scp is convenient then you can run 'anna-install openssh-client-udeb' from a shell and then you have scp | 17:11 |
| tmmoyer | okay, wasn't sure if I could do that | 17:12 |
| tmmoyer | syslog is up at http://www.cse.psu.edu/~tmmoyer/files/syslog | 17:25 |
| tmmoyer | I looked and didn't really see anything that might cause problems | 17:25 |
| cjwatson | ah | 17:26 |
| cjwatson | May 12 12:13:05 main-menu[3165]: INFO: Menu item 'console-setup-udeb' succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured. | 17:26 |
| cjwatson | looks like your keyboard preseeding is broken | 17:26 |
| cjwatson | kbd-chooser/method=us is obsolete - maybe you want console-setup/layoutcode=us | 17:27 |
| cjwatson | it's not clear exactly why it failed, but that might explain it | 17:27 |
| tmmoyer | okay i'll give that a try... i was going based on the debian installer preseeding guide that is listed in the wiki (the appendix has descriptions of a lot of different options) | 17:27 |
| cjwatson | once a menu item fails, it'll fall back to the menu | 17:27 |
| tmmoyer | okay let me give this a try | 17:27 |
| cjwatson | you need to use the Ubuntu installation guide for preseeding | 17:27 |
| cjwatson | it's largely similar, but there are some differences like this that will bite you | 17:28 |
| cjwatson | https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/installation-guide/ | 17:28 |
| tmmoyer | didn't know about this, only found the wiki page that lead to the debian installer guide | 17:29 |
| tmmoyer | thanks | 17:29 |
| cjwatson | which wiki page? | 17:31 |
| tmmoyer | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization sorry it is a help page | 17:33 |
| cjwatson | and the link right below it to the Ubuntu installation guide :-) | 17:33 |
| cjwatson | let me restructure that a bit | 17:33 |
| tmmoyer | also it is to edgy,not the most recent | 17:34 |
| cjwatson | yeah, it's just wrong in places | 17:36 |
| cjwatson | saying that 6.06 uses the etch version of d-i is misleading at best | 17:36 |
| tmmoyer | thanks for the help (and being patient) | 17:37 |
| tmmoyer | it appears you have fixed my CD yet again | 17:37 |
| cjwatson | I've updated that wiki page a bit (at least once it finishes saving); thanks for the report | 17:39 |
| tmmoyer | not a problem ... you've been more of a help to me than me to you | 17:39 |
| tmmoyer | any idea what the seed option is for the server cd's software selection menu? | 17:47 |
| cjwatson | tasksel/first (cf. https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/installation-guide/example-preseed.txt) | 17:47 |
| ffm | Are there any free (cc-by-sa or less restrictive) images of the ubiquity installer? I don't have the time to make my own and am making a wikipedia article about it. | 18:09 |
| ffm | Would http://flickr.com/photos/vincentt/435072021/ or http://flickr.com/photos/vincentt/435072055/ be a better screenshot? | 18:16 |
| cjwatson | Neither is representative of how ubiquity normally looks because Ubuntu has a different theme | 18:18 |
| cjwatson | if you're picking a single screenshot, I think it ought to be of the first screen (the language choice) | 18:18 |
| ffm | cjwatson: darn, I had already chosen the stepsix one. | 18:23 |
| ffm | I'll replace it with the other one. | 18:23 |
| * ffm makes a mental ntoe. | 18:24 | |
| jdehlin | Can anyone point me in the right direction for adding a ssh udeb | 22:16 |
| avoine | jdehlin: what I do is copy all the .deb and .udeb in a folder and rebuild the repository with reprepro | 22:19 |
| jdehlin | This is my first time messing with udebs. Thanks for the reply but I also need to know here to get those from, what d-i lines I need, etc.. Is there a tutorial or a man page I can look at? | 22:22 |
| cjwatson | there already is one - 'anna-install openssh-client-udeb' in a shell in the running installer | 22:29 |
| mario_limonciell | cjwatson, re you indications of that 4 primary partition business, it ended up a stand still unless the exact offending model is identified since the factory process turns out to be vastly different on different configurations. if you see that gentlemen, i think you said astronut, a copy of his C:\SDR (hidden file on vista) would be sufficient to identify everything necessary | 23:15 |
| cjwatson | ok, thanks for trying | 23:21 |
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