[06:00] <mkrueger> does anybody know how to suppress the "low warning" message on a customized  dapper i386 server install?
[12:57] <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?
[13:16] <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.)
[13:17] <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
[13:19] <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
[13:20] <cjwatson> from the installer, yes
[13:21] <tmmoyer> it would appear that putting the udebs in pool/main/l/linux worked
[13:22] <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
[13:26] <tmmoyer> thank you very much for the help
[17:03] <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
[17:04] <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
[17:05] <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
[17:06] <cjwatson> should be fine
[17:06] <tmmoyer> i will get the syslog right now
[17:09] <tmmoyer> what would be an easy method of getting the syslog to another machine?
[17:11] <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
[17:12] <tmmoyer> okay, wasn't sure if I could do that
[17:25] <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
[17:26] <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
[17:27] <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
[17:28] <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/
[17:29] <tmmoyer> didn't know about this, only found the wiki page that lead to the debian installer guide
[17:29] <tmmoyer> thanks
[17:31] <cjwatson> which wiki page?
[17:33] <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
[17:34] <tmmoyer> also it is to edgy,not the most recent
[17:36] <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
[17:37] <tmmoyer> thanks for the help (and being patient)
[17:37] <tmmoyer> it appears you have fixed my CD yet again
[17:39] <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
[17:47] <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)
[18:09] <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.
[18:16] <ffm> Would http://flickr.com/photos/vincentt/435072021/ or http://flickr.com/photos/vincentt/435072055/ be a better screenshot?
[18:18] <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)
[18:23] <ffm> cjwatson: darn, I had already chosen the stepsix one.
[18:23] <ffm> I'll replace it with the other one.
[18:24]  * ffm makes a mental ntoe.
[22:16] <jdehlin> Can anyone point me in the right direction for adding a ssh udeb
[22:19] <avoine> jdehlin: what I do is copy all the .deb and .udeb in a folder and rebuild the repository with reprepro
[22:22] <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?
[22:29] <cjwatson> there already is one - 'anna-install openssh-client-udeb' in a shell in the running installer
[23:15] <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
[23:21] <cjwatson> ok, thanks for trying