| cj | ended up doing this: bzr branch lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/debian-installer/xenial-proposed ; cd xenial-proposed ; git init ; bzr fast-export --plain . | git fast-import | 00:49 |
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| cyphermox | cjwatson: did you look at that d-i branch I linked you for the bzr->git conversion? | 01:49 |
| cyphermox | oh, except you did tell me to move it and I still haven't | 01:49 |
| cyphermox | cj: anything I can help with with re: the installer? | 01:51 |
| cj | cyphermox: oh, hey! sorry for the delay | 02:29 |
| cj | cyphermox: I'd love to know how to augment the fstab of the target | 02:29 |
| cj | or what to do about maas-* not taking any preseed arguments and requiring a bunch of post-installation set-up | 02:30 |
| cj | I guess I could submit a patch to the maas-* packages to accept arguments via preseed rather than requiring sacrificial rites | 02:31 |
| cj | or ways to reduce the build time of the initrd... | 02:33 |
| cj | or if there is a target that will build *just* the initrd rather than all of the rest of the stuff... | 02:33 |
| cj | I added a patch to take the contents of a directory and drop them in /var/lib/preseed for use during the installation | 02:33 |
| cj | if there's a better way to do this, that would be super. | 02:33 |
| cj | the files I drop in there are various preseed files, one for each type of system I intend to install from the installer | 02:34 |
| cj | as well as scripts which are specified for the preseed/early_command, partman/early_command and preseed/late_command | 02:36 |
| cj | and also something like an /etc/skel, but for the whole filesystem rather than /home/${USER} | 02:36 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | Hi, I'm looking for some help automating the liveCD installer | 23:44 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | I posted a question here that has some details: http://askubuntu.com/questions/778795/how-to-get-past-welcome-language-screen-when-automating-install | 23:45 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | The farthest I can get is for ubiquity to start automatically, but I can't get past the Welcome page. | 23:46 |
| CarlFK | AgeOfAsparagus: do you need the gui, or is the text based installer fine, given it sounds like you just want it to install and reboot into a new system? | 23:47 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | Well, I've got both on the go, I have a netboot image I'm trying, and I have the Live Installer/Ubiquity | 23:48 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | I was hoping to get Ubiquity working because it seemed more likely I'd be able to add Mint as an option, and I couldn't find any other images of Mint | 23:49 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | CarlFK: However, if you could give me a hand with my netboot one, that would also be awesome! =) | 23:49 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | car | 23:49 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | CarlFK: I also can't get past the first screen on that one either...haha | 23:50 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | I | 23:50 |
| CarlFK | https://github.com/CarlFK/veyepar/blob/master/setup/nodes/pxe/README.txt | 23:50 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | I'm hoping to start using Linux in my highschool classroom in September, but have minimal support from my IT department. I'm pretty new to Linux, but learning fast... | 23:51 |
| CarlFK | you are at home right? | 23:52 |
| CarlFK | setting up a dhcp server on someone elses lan is poor form ;) | 23:52 |
| CarlFK | that said... I would start by using that to build a server as is, try to isolate it from the rest of your lan, plug in a 2nd box, pxe boot, see what happens | 23:53 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | IT dept runs a PFSense Firewall and Server. | 23:53 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | They gave me a sandbox on the other side to see if I could get it to work | 23:54 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | I can successfully pxe boot right now | 23:54 |
| CarlFK | it's been a while sense I verified that setup.sh script works. package names have changed ... | 23:54 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | it's the preseeding I'm failing at | 23:54 |
| CarlFK | you can try to move my config over to your setup manually | 23:55 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | looking through your script, I think I'm good intal the swap shaz thing line 85... | 23:57 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | *until | 23:57 |
| CarlFK | shaz was the hostname of my first server... then I wanted to be able to build a 2nd one and realized I had shaz hardcoded all over the place | 23:58 |
| AgeOfAsparagus | DOes that script install? it just looks liek setup | 23:59 |
| CarlFK | what script? | 23:59 |
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