[14:54] <fish_> hrm, debian-installer/locale should preseed debian-installer/language etc as well, right?
[14:54] <fish_> looks like it doesn't
[16:28] <fish_> bwuahaha. oops.. I just installed ubuntu successfull - but the whole graphical desktop thingy, not as expected the server 'flavor'
[16:28] <fish_> any ideas what I need to preseed so I end up with a fairly minimal server system? (actually I expected that when using the example preseed)
[16:30] <xnox> fish_: which image / iso did you use for the install and what's your preseed?
[16:30] <fish_> never mind, already found it. must have missed that
[16:31] <fish_> thats the 'problem': tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop
[16:31] <xnox> =)
[16:32] <fish_> but this was really unexpected. installed everything preseeded, automatically and with static ips. and suddently lightdm came up and I was like wtf?
[16:32] <ogra_> just s/ubuntu-desktop/openssh-server/
[16:32] <ogra_> ;)
[16:32] <fish_> didn't even know that those dell drac virtual consoles can do real graphics
[16:32] <xnox> ogra_: i'd say "ubuntu-server" but that should work too =)
[16:33] <ogra_> heh, yeah
[16:33] <fish_> whats the most minimal task? I really don't want much beside ssh
[16:33] <xnox> fish_: "ubuntu-minimal"
[16:33] <ogra_> well, then my above line applies
[16:33] <ogra_> ubuntu-minimal is always installed
[16:34] <xnox> fish_: but "ubuntu-server" is fairly minimal, I think the most fancy thing it installs is GNU screen =)
[16:34] <ogra_> (it is what a default debootstrap gives you)
[16:34] <ogra_> i think -server pulls in -standard
[16:34] <ogra_> (which is "everything that wasnt mimimal enough to fit into -minimal :) )
[16:38] <fish_> ogra_: but minimal includes ssh?
[16:38] <ogra_> no
[16:39] <ogra_> -standard includes openssh-client ... iirc nothing includes the server by default (or there might be a specific server sub-task)
[16:41] <fish_> ogra_: ah okay, guess then I'll go with ubuntu-minimal and add: pkgsel/include string openssh-server
[16:43] <xnox> openssh-server (from openssh) is seeded in:
[16:43] <xnox>   edubuntu: dvd
[16:43] <xnox>   lubuntu: daily
[16:43] <xnox>   mythbuntu: daily-live
[16:43] <xnox>   ubuntu-server: daily
[16:43] <xnox>   ubuntu-touch: daily-preinstalled
[16:43] <xnox> ogra_: fish_ ^
[16:43] <xnox> bah, it's in it's own task: Task: virt-host, cloud-image, openssh-server
[16:44] <ogra_> xnox, yeah
[16:44] <ogra_> it is seeded but the server installer still wants you to explicitly select it in tasksel
[16:46] <ogra_> (there was a discussion about it which resulted in it to become the first option in tasksel but to still stay unchecked by default)
[16:46] <bdmurray> cjwatson: did you say you are working on 12.04.4?
[16:46] <fish_> hrm, but minimal + select the package should be fine, right?
[16:47] <ogra_> yep
[16:49] <fish_> hrm.. passwd/user-password-crypted seems not to work, I can't login. it expected MD5/hex, right?
[16:49] <fish_> like: echo -n "password" | md5sum
[16:51] <fish_> ah okay, looks like it's not
[16:53] <fish_> (it's salted md5 in crypt format)
[17:17] <cjwatson> bdmurray: yeah, ish
[17:19] <bdmurray> cjwatson: bug 1051935 might be worth adding to the mix (it's been fixed in trusty)
[17:19] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 1051935 in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise) "Fails with SystemError when too many files are open" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1051935
[17:20] <cjwatson> bdmurray: chances of me having time to cherry-pick all that myself are fairly slim, but if you want to do it I'd review
[17:22] <bdmurray> cjwatson: okay, I'll have a look then
[17:24] <cjwatson> thanks
[17:34] <fish_> hrm, aren't the netcfg options used for the actual /etc/network/interfaces configuration?
[17:35] <fish_> the installer gets pxe booted, then it's doing dhcp (based on the kernel parameters), then it fetches the preseed where I manually configured the network
[17:35] <fish_> but after the installation is finished, /etc/network/interfaces is configured to use dhcp