| _ruben | as for preseeding disk layout, http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/svn/debian-installer/installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt seems to be one of the very few reference docs .. any other tips/hints? | 11:48 |
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| cjwatson | you should always use the Ubuntu documentation, not the Debian documentation | 11:49 |
| cjwatson | at times they differ | 11:49 |
| _ruben | google wouldnt lead me to an ubuntu version :p | 11:50 |
| cjwatson | http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/debian-installer/ubuntu/annotate/head%3A/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt | 11:51 |
| cjwatson | I think that's the only recipe documentation there is, really | 11:51 |
| _ruben | ok, thanks, then i'll give it a try using that doc | 11:54 |
| _ruben | is there a way to "test run" such a recipe? initiating a complete os reinstall to test a recipe sounds a bit overkill to me | 12:07 |
| cjwatson | not really, sorry | 12:14 |
| _ruben | too bad | 12:18 |
| Haegin | hi, where can I find the relevant netboot files for ubuntu eee or easy peasy? | 12:38 |
| cjwatson | we don't yet support the Eee as part of the core Ubuntu project, so I'm afraid this channel is unable to help | 12:43 |
| cjwatson | though my wife has been on my case to get Ubuntu working on her Eee, so it may happen at some point :) | 12:44 |
| _ruben | hehe | 12:44 |
| cjwatson | I assume that you have read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Installation ? | 12:44 |
| cjwatson | of course, it may be that the standard netboot files work on Eee; I simply don't know | 12:44 |
| cjwatson | those are here: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ | 12:44 |
| Haegin | cjwatson: thanks, I'll take a look. It seems ridiculous that the ubuntu eee project doesn't support netbooting when the device has no optical drive but oh well, some people are fools... | 12:50 |
| cjwatson | well, depending on the extent of their modifications, it may be that they can just rely on the standard files | 12:50 |
| cjwatson | as I say - I just don't know | 12:51 |
| cjwatson | I thought they generally advised USB booting | 12:51 |
| Haegin | Yeah, I don't have a spare USB device available that works with it and I have a netboot server set up on a nice fast connection. | 12:53 |
| DogWater | jeez my mirror has been building for 12hr on a gig-e connection | 13:48 |
| DogWater | cjwatson: d'oh it says that -i error at the beginning of the install but i dont see it until the end when it drops back to the shell | 13:50 |
| DogWater | i just noticed it | 13:50 |
| DogWater | cjwatson: it says it immediately after 'configuring the network with dhcp' | 13:56 |
| DogWater | that must be when it downloads and parses the kickstart file, np? | 13:56 |
| DogWater | err no?? | 13:57 |
| cjwatson | that's a lot more plausible than it happening at preseed/late_command time, yes | 14:01 |
| cjwatson | can I get the syslog? | 14:01 |
| davmor2 | cjwatson: Haegin: easypeasy might be a better option for you it used to be the eeebuntu project if memory serves | 14:04 |
| davmor2 | http://www.geteasypeasy.com/ | 14:06 |
| _ruben | woah .. my first attempt at preseeding disk layout actually worked .. not too keen on the chosen names for the vgs/lvs, but i guess i could live with that :) | 14:15 |
| DogWater | sure, i'll give you the syslog what do you want me to do with it? | 14:27 |
| cjwatson | put it wherever's convenient, as long as it isn't pasted into IRC | 14:28 |
| cjwatson | attach to a bug report, paste.ubuntu.com, whatever | 14:28 |
| DogWater | cjwatson: you mentioned that you ran a ubuntu mirror locally, do you know if you can use any mirror for that or do you have to use the ubuntu archive? | 14:30 |
| cjwatson | archive.ubuntu.com is a mirror itself, technically :-) | 14:31 |
| cjwatson | any mirror will do | 14:31 |
| DogWater | yeah cause i notice that one is particularly slow | 14:31 |
| cjwatson | obviously it's rather loaded | 14:31 |
| DogWater | yes, loaded is what i meant to say | 14:31 |
| DogWater | yikes it started over at the beginning ;-) | 14:34 |
| DogWater | i figured it would resume | 14:34 |
| cjwatson | it downloads the indices from scratch each time, but will reuse any .deb files that are there | 14:35 |
| DogWater | cjwatson: can I send this to you somewhere private? i tried to sanitize it best i could but its a long file | 14:56 |
| cjwatson | I'd really prefer that you didn't sanitise it, unless there are any passwords in it | 14:56 |
| DogWater | theres IPs etc in it | 14:56 |
| cjwatson | mail it to cjwatson@ubuntu.com then | 14:57 |
| cjwatson | but please don't try to filter it down to what you think I'll be interested in | 14:57 |
| cjwatson | removing genuinely private data is fine | 14:57 |
| DogWater | i didnt cut any lines out | 14:57 |
| DogWater | or anything | 14:57 |
| cjwatson | some people grep for interesting stuff and only send me the results, which is very frustrating :) | 14:58 |
| DogWater | should be in your inbox | 14:59 |
| cjwatson | thanks | 15:01 |
| davmor2 | evand: should m-a pop up now in jaunty on a whole drive install? | 15:52 |
| DogWater | hrm | 16:10 |
| DogWater | well aside from not being able to use sed in the installer im pretty pleased with the new version (fixed) cjwatson, did you ever get a chance to release a new initrd for amd64? | 16:12 |
| cjwatson | no, planning to do that by way of intrepid-proposed | 16:25 |
| cjwatson | Jan 23 09:34:38 in-target: Unexpected error; command not executed: 'apt-get update' | 16:25 |
| cjwatson | I guess this must be the problem - let me see | 16:25 |
| cjwatson | ah yes, I can reproduce it | 16:30 |
| DogWater | cjwatson so any clue on that one? | 17:30 |
| cjwatson | DogWater: I was on the phone, give me a minute ... | 17:54 |
| cjwatson | I'm hitting it with various debugging approaches now | 17:56 |
| DogWater | oh, i dont mean to rush you or anything i was just curious you killed that one yesterday so fast | 17:57 |
| cjwatson | yeah, that one I had fixed already though and just had to remember about it :) | 17:59 |
| DogWater | oh. lol nice | 17:59 |
| cjwatson | this one almost looks like a new busybox bug | 17:59 |
| DogWater | i do that sometimes when i write php i create a function like 10 times and do it 10 different ways then eventually i realize i already wrote that function | 18:00 |
| DogWater | i think i got banned from the ubuntu archive i was trying to mirror =/ | 18:00 |
| cjwatson | I think I can give you a workaround | 18:01 |
| cjwatson | preseed preseed/late_command string sed 's/http:\/\/10.1.0.1\/Ubuntu8.10\//http:\/\/ubuntu.osuosl.org\/ubuntu/g' /target/etc/apt/sources.list > /target/etc/apt/sources.list.new && mv /target/etc/apt/sources.list.new /target/etc/apt/sources.list && in-target apt-get update | 18:03 |
| cjwatson | alternatively, you can put the whole sed / apt-get update thing in a script that you download from a server and then run | 18:05 |
| cjwatson | the problem isn't with running sed, it's with parsing of the -i | 18:05 |
| cjwatson | it's being parsed entirely incorrectly as a getopt option, which it isn't | 18:06 |
| cjwatson | there is something very weird going on, though, as I can reproduce this with getopt(1) on a normal system too | 18:10 |
| cjwatson | $ getopt -o '' -l foo: -- -i | 18:10 |
| cjwatson | getopt: invalid option -- 'i' | 18:10 |
| cjwatson | -- | 18:10 |
| cjwatson | (the -- in the first line is supposed to terminate options regardless of everything else) | 18:10 |
| cjwatson | oh, maybe I'm confused | 18:11 |
| cjwatson | DogWater: anyway, that should be a functional workaround and I have to go out now, but I'll continue working this out and get it fixed for jaunty | 18:12 |
| CIA-3 | oem-config: cjwatson * r584 trunk/ (6 files in 3 dirs): | 18:13 |
| CIA-3 | oem-config: If the user backs up all the way out of oem-config (perhaps | 18:13 |
| CIA-3 | oem-config: deliberately, or perhaps by accident), ask whether they want to try | 18:13 |
| CIA-3 | oem-config: again, drop to a recovery shell, or reboot. | 18:13 |
| CIA-3 | debian-installer: cjwatson * r991 intrepid-proposed/ (3 files in 2 dirs): Move mainline architectures to 2.6.27-11 kernels. | 18:21 |
| CIA-3 | debian-installer: cjwatson * r992 intrepid-proposed/debian/changelog: releasing version 20080522ubuntu26 | 18:28 |
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