[00:00] <mmcc> yes, I've seen his plugin-viewer-gtk.py, and that works fine for me. I wanted to have the full picture too, though.
[00:00] <mmcc> and ack on py3. I've noticed that already
[00:00] <xnox> a VM is the only way to get the full picture =)
[00:01] <xnox> if you have a spare laptop/desktop you can do burn the amd64+mac.iso using disk utility on to a USB stick and boot that.
[00:01] <xnox> (bare metal is way waster / snappier)
[00:02] <xnox> also if you take screenshots of downloading amd64+mac.iso and burning/restoring it on-to the usb stick using the "disk utility" the website maintainance people will be glad to take those screenshots and publish on the website =)
[00:02] <mmcc> heh, I'll keep that in mind. :)
[00:02] <xnox> (currently installing ubuntu from mac os x documentation looks dated from like Tiger times)
[00:02] <mmcc> unfortunately I don't really have a spare mac to try that with
[00:03] <xnox> fair enough =)
[00:03] <mmcc> well, maybe I should do the screenshots anyway, if they're painfully out of date
[00:03] <mmcc> I'm even one release behind the current mac os myself. I wonder if disk utility changed in 10.8...
[00:09] <mmcc> ok, so to be sure I have this right - I could create a new .deb, then boot the live cd, get and install that deb, and just run "ubiquity"? (mvo's notes had 'sudo ubiquity', do I need to run with privs?)
[00:10] <mmcc> I'm a little fuzzy on the other approach, where I'm just modifying /usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/* - is that also assuming the live CD is running, and I'm just overwriting those files from that session?
[00:12] <xnox> both are the same - in first case you use dpkg to install / unpack a deb (which is really just a compressed archive of files + metadata) into place vs doing it by "hand"
[00:12] <xnox> if you run ubiquity, it will ask you for priviliges. or just execute the "install ubuntu" launcher from the live desktop.
[00:13] <mmcc> yeah, that makes sense
[00:13] <xnox> but.... the livecd user has no password - so sudo or no sudo it can gain privileges pretty much without asking =)
[00:15] <mmcc> curious - I noticed the desktop entry for the launcher has 'ubiquity --desktop %k gtk_ui', but I don't see the --desktop arg in the source I'm looking at. is that something new?
[00:15] <mmcc> ie, since this branch...
[00:15] <xnox> there are a few levels of wrappers =)
[00:15] <mmcc> ah, ok
[00:16] <xnox> apart from gtk frontend there is kde (qt) frontend as well as a text mode debconf (curses) mode.
[00:16] <xnox> but you should only care about the gtk one.
[00:16] <xnox> kde (qt) one is maintained by kubuntu community
[00:17] <xnox> and debconf/curses is only for like server stuff (landscape) and other not directly client configs
[00:17] <xnox> so out of scope as well for the U1 plugin.
[00:18] <mmcc> ah, I see the ubiquity-wrapper script now.
[00:20] <mmcc> ok, I think I know how to move forward now - thanks so much for your help! I'll probably hang out in here while I'm working on this, but I should usually be quieter :)
[11:03] <Peanut> Hi folks. I'm trying to install some boxes on Precise, but I seem to have made a mistake in my Preseed, and it complains "No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu". And there's a button "Continue", but if I press it, it just goes to the same error message again. I don't get the option to 'Go Back' or 'Abort installation' at all.