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fidenciocyphermox: hey/ping17:01
fidenciocyphermox: tried here to perform an express installation on a livecd and, as recommended by you, passing "only-ubiquity automatic-ubiquity" to the command line17:03
fidencioit boots, but doesn't start the installer17:04
fidenciooh, it stopped and seems that I'm on ash. I can see (initramfs)17:05
fidenciothe same preseed file that I'm using works properly for a server ISO17:05
cyphermoxthat shouldn't happen. even if the command-line is wrong you'd still get a live session or ubiquity on a desktop image, not just failing and dropping to the initramfs17:08
cyphermoxany errors show up?17:08
fidencionops, any obvious error.17:10
fidencioI'm trying with 15.10 live iso17:11
fidencioI know, maybe would be better to try with 16.04, but then it means adding support on something else on libosinf that I've been postponing :-)17:11
cyphermoxit shouldn't be a big difference17:14
cyphermoxclearly something is happening, but I don't know what. Maybe try removing only-ubiquity, and run ubiquity --automatic from the live session to see if at least that runs correctly?17:15
fidenciookay, let me give it a try17:18
fidenciocyphermox: yeah, uniquity --automatic works fine from a live session17:31
fidenciocyphermox: maybe a stupid question, does ubiquity understands debian-installer commands?17:32
cyphermoxfidencio: ok, then does booting with just only-ubiquity work? that should get you the non-automatic, non-live (installer-only) session17:32
cyphermoxfidencio: for the most part, yes, with some additions, and some features from d-i that we just don't expose (but you can still preseed)17:33
cyphermoxthat wouldn't get the installer to not start, though17:33
fidenciocyphermox: hmm. stops at busybox again17:37
fidenciocyphermox: any idea on how to check for some issue there?17:37
cyphermoxI'm not sure, you should definitely see some error messages17:39
cyphermoxmaybe boot with verbose in case they're just hidden because of plymouth?17:40
cyphermoxin any case, this means the issue isn't the preseed, but the environment itself17:40
cyphermoxif you're netbooting; the paths for files tends to be different. It wouldn't cause it to work for live and not work for only-ubiquity though17:41
fidenciocyphermox: I'm not netbooting.17:43
cyphermoxoh, I thought you were17:43
fidenciowould it make any difference?17:48
cyphermoxwell, only if you did the paths wrong on tftp17:52
cyphermoxfidencio: so, perhaps it's time to consider trying your preseeding with a 16.04 image?17:53
fidenciocyphermox: yeap, let me go for it. if it doesn't work I'll take as "preseed only server ISOs"17:54
cyphermoxwell, like I said, preseeding desktop installs is supposed to work too17:58

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