| borco | hi | 09:09 |
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| borco | i try to customize the ubiquity for a custom installer | 09:09 |
| borco | is it possible to test something without actually creating an iso? | 09:10 |
| borco | i want to add some new pages to ubiquity and now i have to create an iso and then test it in VB | 09:10 |
| borco | it would be nice if its possible to launch the ubiquity just to see it displays my pages correctly... | 09:11 |
| cjwatson | You could add stuff to the test suite, though it's not necessarily *desperately* easy | 09:12 |
| cjwatson | If UBIQUITY_TEST_SHOW_ALL_PAGES is set to something non-empty in the environment, the test suite will run through all pages showing each for a few seconds | 09:13 |
| borco | so there's no magic like chrooting and then "ubiquity --dry-run" :-) | 09:13 |
| cjwatson | Well, it won't install anything until it gets past partitioning, but your page might be after that | 09:13 |
| cjwatson | And in that case no | 09:13 |
| borco | yep, my page is later in the process :( | 09:14 |
| borco | ok. i'll stick with the VM. | 09:14 |
| borco | thanx | 09:14 |
| soren | Are values from preseed files supposed to take precedence over kernel parameters? | 09:15 |
| borco | it would be nice to be possible to mock somehow the installation process | 09:15 |
| borco | i need to configure a custom package | 09:15 |
| borco | a local server | 09:15 |
| borco | some users, ports, etc | 09:15 |
| borco | that kind of things | 09:16 |
| borco | it probably doesn't matter | 09:16 |
| borco | i mean - the order shouldn't matter | 09:16 |
| soren | Specifically, I just had a problem with partman getting stuck waiting for me to confirm the partitioning. A kernel parameter said to use /dev/sda (partman-auto/disk=/dev/sda) while the preseed said to use /dev/sdc. There was no /dev/sdc, so I'm assuming it got stuck because it took the answer from the preseed rather than from the cmdline. | 09:18 |
| soren | ...which may be entirely intentional. When the preseed is imported, does it just get to override whatever debconf had cached (thus overwriting what was passed on the cmdline)? | 09:19 |
| cjwatson | soren: file/url preseeds are processed after the kernel command line and therefore override it | 09:21 |
| * Daviey ponders what soren is working on. | 09:22 | |
| soren | Daviey: cobbler doesn't have a field for "install disk" in its data model, so I had to move it to the kernel commandline | 09:23 |
| soren | cjwatson: Makes sense. Thanks. | 09:23 |
| soren | Daviey: ...because the preseed templating can only grab stuff from cobbler internal data model, afaict. | 09:24 |
| soren | Daviey: ...but I can set a per-system kernel command option. | 09:24 |
| Daviey | soren: ah ok.. i think it can be done per-system.. but sure, that approach seems viable. | 09:25 |
| soren | Daviey: Sure, i can set a per-system preseed, but that kind of defeats the purpose of the templating coolness. | 09:25 |
| cjwatson | you can always use preseed/early_command, check whether stuff is already preseeded, and use debconf-set conditionally | 09:27 |
| cjwatson | (or debconf-set-selections) | 09:27 |
| cjwatson | you can possibly even write out a preseed/include or something dynamically, I forget | 09:27 |
| soren | cjwatson: I'll keep that in mind. Thanks. | 09:30 |
| jodh | I'm seeing essentially bug 527848 on the latest desktop CD. | 10:59 |
| ubot2 | Launchpad bug 527848 in ubiquity "[Lucid] ubi-partman failed with exit code 141 during manual partitioning" [Undecided,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/527848 | 10:59 |
| jodh | message appears before manual partitioning though - when I click continue on the "Preparing to install Ubuntu" screen. | 11:01 |
| yfaykya | This the right place to ask about raid/preseed questions? | 12:43 |
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