[08:14] <alienresidents> hello, anyone available to help with a base-installer via netboot issue?
[08:16] <alienresidents> anyway, I am having an issue where when installing via kickstart (preseed, and/or ks) on a not-routed subnet (ie: same subnet), everything works as expected.
[08:17] <alienresidents> The problem is when I am installing on a routed subnet (ie: via a router).  During the install process, it seems to be going fine, download the installer components and right up until the base-installer kicks in (debconf_debug=5), and then suddenly it's unable to download packages with a "Connection failed" message.
[08:20] <alienresidents> :(
[08:20] <alienresidents> well, hopefully someone will come alive at some point :)
[08:20] <alienresidents> I've got plenty more information when required...
[08:48] <alienresidents> OK, well for anyone that is concerned after they wake up... we have a context/protocol aware firewall that was allowing the first part of the install process to get to the base-installer stage, and then the protocol was being seen as apt-get (rightly so), and the firewall peoples hadn't allowed apt-get (go figure).
[13:56] <lassizci> is there any way to determine the size of a disk in kickseed's %pre? It looks like it's executed quite early, so it doesn't know about disks yet
[13:59] <lassizci> partitioning is done based on disk size so I try to determine the disk size in %pre and generate the partitioning schema there
[14:00] <lassizci> using preseed partman/early_command in the kickstart just makes the partman questions pop out and it seems to ignore kickstart defined partitioning, when used
[15:45] <nuclearbob> I could use some help with an expert partman recipe for lvm if somebody's got a minute
[17:04] <xnox> nuclearbob: those are tricky. What are you after?
[17:05] <nuclearbob> xnox: I want to create a volume group that fills the whole disk and a logical volume that only takes up part of the volume group so we can use snapshotting
[17:06] <xnox> nuclearbob: you can use automatic preseeding and set an option to only fill the lvs upto such %.
[17:06] <xnox> one sec.
[17:06] <nuclearbob> xnox: thanks.  If it's easier for me to pop over to whatever room you're in, I can do that as well
[17:08] <xnox> nuclearbob: partman-auto-lvm/guided_size
[17:08] <xnox> preseed that to some sensible value like 50%
[17:09] <xnox> and you should be able to use just the bog-standard lvm preseed we have in the desktop/server utah ubuntu testcases.
[17:09] <nuclearbob> xnox: awesome, thanks
[17:09] <xnox> nuclearbob: you can read the template help info about that option in the partman-auto-lvm package
[17:09] <nuclearbob> rad