[01:30] <Danio> I am having trouble installing ubuntu on multiple computers can anyone point me in the right direction?
[04:09] <madPJKfan> hi
[04:10] <madPJKfan> does the windows installer wipe your windows installation, or does it set it up for dual boot?
[04:14] <madPJKfan> ... gone
[16:45] <CarlFK> something is causing alt installer's reboot to not reboot
[16:45] <CarlFK> current lucid
[16:46] <CarlFK> but the same preseed worked fine on another box.
[16:47] <CarlFK> Dec 13 16:28:20 debconf: <-- 10 finish-install/progress/bind-mount does not exist
[16:52] <CarlFK> actually, maybe it didnt' work fine on 2nd box
[20:53] <EtienneG> hey guys
[20:53] <EtienneG> I got one here that has caused some hair-greying on my part :)
[20:54] <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
[20:55] <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
[20:56] <EtienneG> if the directory in question is not on the ISO, the installer breeze through just fine
[20:57] <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)
[20:58] <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 ...
[21:05] <rbelem> hi EtienneG
[21:06] <rbelem> EtienneG, i think you can place your packages to $CDIMAGE_ROOT/local/packages
[21:06] <EtienneG> rbelem, interesting ... is that a convention?
[21:07] <EtienneG> like, d-i is hard-coded to look in there?
[21:08] <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
[21:09] <rbelem> EtienneG, i do not know
[21:09] <rbelem> EtienneG, but you can customize your d-i preseed for that anyway
[21:10] <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
[21:11] <EtienneG> rbelem, no prob, I am looking that up
[21:12]  * rbelem looks in the preseed docs
[21:15] <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
[21:18] <rbelem> EtienneG, i wrote a chapter in a book about this :-) http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Ubuntu-Mobile-Development-Programmer/dp/047043676X/
[21:19] <EtienneG> I was not aware there was a book on that topic!
[21:20] <rbelem> EtienneG, it has just been launched in november
[21:23] <EtienneG> nice!
[21:25] <rbelem> :-)
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[22:59] <cjwatson> EtienneG: usually in order to diagnose installation problems accurately, we need the installer syslog
[23:00] <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
[23:02] <EtienneG> cjwatson, thanks a lot for the offer ... I think I am all set now
[23:03] <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!
[23:04] <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/
[23:05] <EtienneG> cjwatson, however, big thanks anyway for inquiring, it is much appreciated
[23:06] <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
[23:12] <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
[23:17] <cjwatson> shtylman_: for the most part, I think you can use debconf-set-selections
[23:18] <shtylman_> cjwatson: ahh..didn't know about that...thanks
[23:39] <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