| Danio | I am having trouble installing ubuntu on multiple computers can anyone point me in the right direction? | 01:30 |
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| madPJKfan | hi | 04:09 |
| madPJKfan | does the windows installer wipe your windows installation, or does it set it up for dual boot? | 04:10 |
| madPJKfan | ... gone | 04:14 |
| CarlFK | something is causing alt installer's reboot to not reboot | 16:45 |
| CarlFK | current lucid | 16:45 |
| CarlFK | but the same preseed worked fine on another box. | 16:46 |
| CarlFK | Dec 13 16:28:20 debconf: <-- 10 finish-install/progress/bind-mount does not exist | 16:47 |
| CarlFK | actually, maybe it didnt' work fine on 2nd box | 16:52 |
| EtienneG | hey guys | 20:53 |
| EtienneG | I got one here that has caused some hair-greying on my part :) | 20:53 |
| EtienneG | I am building a custom ISO, and there is a folder that contains .deb package to eventually install (say, custom/packages) | 20:54 |
| EtienneG | I have created a Packages.gz file in that directory with dpkg-scanpackages | 20:54 |
| EtienneG | now, the installer fail when that folder is present on the ISO, but goes through if it is not | 20:55 |
| EtienneG | the errors are dependency problems, but hold on, as this is not what I am trying to solve | 20:55 |
| EtienneG | if the directory in question is not on the ISO, the installer breeze through just fine | 20:56 |
| EtienneG | I can only conclude that d-i somehow find about this folder, and include the packages in there when calculating dependencies and such | 20:57 |
| EtienneG | (my ISO is based on the alternate one, btw) | 20:57 |
| EtienneG | so, my question: is it possible to tell d-i not to look into that folder? To just stick in what is in (pool|dists)? | 20:58 |
| EtienneG | there has to be a preseed directive for that ... | 20:58 |
| rbelem | hi EtienneG | 21:05 |
| rbelem | EtienneG, i think you can place your packages to $CDIMAGE_ROOT/local/packages | 21:06 |
| EtienneG | rbelem, interesting ... is that a convention? | 21:06 |
| EtienneG | like, d-i is hard-coded to look in there? | 21:07 |
| rbelem | EtienneG, and the ubuntu cdimage will take care of the indicies | 21:08 |
| rbelem | EtienneG, i think it is | 21:08 |
| EtienneG | rbelem, very cool ... I will look into that | 21:08 |
| rbelem | EtienneG, you can look at the $CDIMAGE_ROOT/bin/update-local-indices source for more info | 21:08 |
| rbelem | EtienneG, i do not know | 21:09 |
| rbelem | EtienneG, but you can customize your d-i preseed for that anyway | 21:09 |
| EtienneG | rbelem, would you know which d-i directive to preseed? | 21:10 |
| rbelem | EtienneG, hum... i do not remember off the top of my head | 21:10 |
| EtienneG | rbelem, no prob, I am looking that up | 21:11 |
| * rbelem looks in the preseed docs | 21:12 | |
| rbelem | EtienneG, http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed at the bottom of the page it mentions installing additional packages | 21:15 |
| EtienneG | rbelem, which doc are you looking at? I know of preseed-contents, but that is all. If there is a good reference, I would love to know about it! | 21:15 |
| EtienneG | rbelem, looking now | 21:15 |
| rbelem | EtienneG, i wrote a chapter in a book about this :-) http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Ubuntu-Mobile-Development-Programmer/dp/047043676X/ | 21:18 |
| EtienneG | I was not aware there was a book on that topic! | 21:19 |
| rbelem | EtienneG, it has just been launched in november | 21:20 |
| EtienneG | nice! | 21:23 |
| rbelem | :-) | 21:25 |
| === cjwatson_ is now known as cjwatson | ||
| cjwatson | EtienneG: usually in order to diagnose installation problems accurately, we need the installer syslog | 22:59 |
| cjwatson | setting up your own ubuntu-cdimage instance for this may be a bit overkill | 23:00 |
| cjwatson | EtienneG: I expect if you can put your syslog somewhere where we can see it (note I'm not around very long, but it's IRC, just wait :-) ), it'll be easy to spot | 23:00 |
| EtienneG | cjwatson, thanks a lot for the offer ... I think I am all set now | 23:02 |
| EtienneG | cjwatson, I was not aware that d-i would scan the CD for Packages, and merge them in the list of installable | 23:03 |
| cjwatson | EtienneG: I'm actually still curious about exactly what the failure was | 23:03 |
| cjwatson | could you humour me? | 23:03 |
| cjwatson | 'cos, you know, I'm not aware that it does that either | 23:03 |
| EtienneG | cjwatson, ok then! | 23:03 |
| EtienneG | cjwatson, however, this will have to wait a bit, as I am in a bit of a rush to deliver something, and I have a workaround now | 23:04 |
| cjwatson | sure, I'm going to bed soon anyway | 23:04 |
| EtienneG | cjwatson, I believe it's pretty late in your part of the world, maybe we can catch up tomorrow | 23:04 |
| EtienneG | no problem | 23:04 |
| cjwatson | I'm often interested in fix things even if they have temporary workarounds | 23:04 |
| cjwatson | s/fix/fixing/ | 23:04 |
| EtienneG | cjwatson, however, big thanks anyway for inquiring, it is much appreciated | 23:05 |
| EtienneG | cjwatson, and I am sorry for not delving into it now: describing the setup, and the justification behind it would take a fair bit of time | 23:06 |
| shtylman_ | cjwatson: is it possible to preseed after launching the live-cd environment? ... im just looking into ways we can test various steps of the installer a bit faster | 23:12 |
| cjwatson | shtylman_: for the most part, I think you can use debconf-set-selections | 23:17 |
| shtylman_ | cjwatson: ahh..didn't know about that...thanks | 23:18 |
| shtylman_ | ev1: im almost done migrating all kde things over to plugin based completely | 23:39 |
| shtylman_ | don't have an uploaded branch for it yet | 23:39 |
| shtylman_ | but within the next week I should and then will post it for review | 23:39 |
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