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| maxb | I wanted to use a server CD as a substitute for the alternate CD which is no longer produced, but despite preseeding tasksel/first in the same way the desktop CD does, I didn't end up with a desktop being booted into | 09:57 |
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| maxb | Any suggestions on what the missing piece is? | 09:57 |
| cjwatson | Server does some slightly odd things; its preseeding of tasksel/force-tasks might be relevant. | 09:58 |
| cjwatson | Also, our CDs tend to only permit installing things from the CD itself. | 09:58 |
| cjwatson | You might be better off using the netboot mini.iso. | 09:58 |
| cjwatson | Since you're going to end up downloading a bunch of stuff anyway if you're installing desktop from a server image. | 09:59 |
| maxb | Hm. I did consider mini.iso, but I wanted the benefit of a grub setup to make my media EFI-bootable too | 10:00 |
| cjwatson | The mini.isos should be hybrid, I thought ... | 10:01 |
| cjwatson | The amd64 one, anyway | 10:01 |
| maxb | Also, I thought I'd managed to remove the server preseed stuff by substituting my own preseed file and changing the preseed file= boot option in the image | 10:01 |
| cjwatson | debian-installer (20100211ubuntu22) maverick; urgency=low | 10:01 |
| cjwatson | ... | 10:01 |
| cjwatson | * Add GRUB EFI configuration on amd64, and make mini.iso images there | 10:01 |
| cjwatson | multi-catalog. | 10:01 |
| cjwatson | -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:11:36 +0100 | 10:01 |
| cjwatson | Yeah, it's probably more the restriction to what's on the CD that's relevant. | 10:02 |
| maxb | Ah, whoops. I assumed the mini.iso was syslinux-only by definition | 10:02 |
| maxb | The server-based install I attempted definitely installed lots of desktop packages, it just didn't boot into X | 10:03 |
| maxb | Baffling, "tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop" somehow managed to get unity (amongst other things) installed but not ubuntu-desktop itself | 10:05 |
| cjwatson | It'll be installing whichever bits of the task it can find, I suppose. Perhaps "d-i pkgsel/include string ubuntu-desktop" would do better | 10:06 |
| cjwatson | That'll go for the metapackage | 10:06 |
| maxb | Worth a try, though I'm intrigued how it managed to the subset it did | 10:08 |
| cjwatson | Seems odd indeed. I could look at a syslog ... | 10:09 |
| maxb | It looks like it really did only install the bits of the task that were on the CD | 11:00 |
| maxb | But then the execution of /usr/lib/finish-install.d/01oem-config-udeb pulled assorted desktopish bits in | 11:01 |
| infinity | That makes sense, since it was looking for the task header in its known packages, which was only from the CD. | 11:01 |
| cjwatson | Right. I think you will find it very hard to make this work right from the server CD. | 11:01 |
| infinity | mini.iso or a netinst would definitely be a saner way to install desktops via d-i. | 11:01 |
| * maxb will change course and play with mini.iso | 11:01 | |
| infinity | s/netinst/netboot/ | 11:02 |
| cjwatson | This is unfortunately basically a case of galloping requirements clashes back in the early days of Ubuntu. | 11:02 |
| cjwatson | I might do it differently nowadays ... | 11:02 |
| maxb | Hmm. The mini.iso *does* include an EFI grub, but it doesn't include the /EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.EFI and /EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi files that the other boot media have | 11:24 |
| cjwatson | I think it's laid out a bit differently. It should still boot ... | 11:26 |
| maxb | It should boot in BIOS mode, but I can't see how it's going to work in EFI mode | 11:31 |
| cjwatson | I thought it had the relevant bits embedded in an El Torito catalog entry. | 11:54 |
| cjwatson | It's been a while. | 11:54 |
| maxb | Ah | 12:20 |
| maxb | It is entirely possible, but that wouldn't survive the translation from .iso to USB stick | 12:20 |
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