| Laney | xnox: want to review https://code.launchpad.net/~laney/ubiquity/+git/ubiquity/+merge/387747 ? | 13:42 |
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| Laney | tried to keep it small, change to apt update for ubuntu-drivers | 13:42 |
| realtime-neil | Just how obsolete is this? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization | 13:53 |
| realtime-neil | On a scale from "I did this yesterday" to "The last person that did that retired a decade ago". | 13:54 |
| xnox | Laney: looks ok. And it is backportable to focal branch too, right? | 13:54 |
| xnox | Laney: i do hate the 'blah blah\'n blah blah' | 13:54 |
| Laney | the what? | 13:54 |
| Laney | multiline strings? | 13:54 |
| xnox | i normally go for "asdfsafsaf'asdfasdfs" or just "No, we did not find any OEM packages again.' | 13:55 |
| Laney | lol | 13:55 |
| Laney | well the second one makes a test fail and the thing ftbfs | 13:55 |
| Laney | and I don't understand the first :> | 13:55 |
| Laney | WAIT | 13:56 |
| xnox | hahahhahahhahahhaa | 13:56 |
| Laney | you're talking about the apostrophe | 13:56 |
| xnox | yes | 13:56 |
| xnox | i did inline comment, with context on the merge proposal | 13:56 |
| xnox | it's fine, if it builds, we should ship it. | 13:57 |
| Laney | I'll change it, it doesn't matter | 13:57 |
| Laney | thx | 13:57 |
| Laney | I'm not 100% confident in it because I don't have a device to test | 13:57 |
| Laney | but we can ask those guys to do it | 13:58 |
| Laney | just makig sure I didn't break kubuntu | 13:58 |
| xnox | Laney: i can build you a focal iso without pool. | 14:05 |
| Laney | we should totally do a one off black run over ubiquity | 14:05 |
| xnox | Laney: then your existing oem device should discover "over the air", no? | 14:05 |
| xnox | Laney: i guess we somehow need oem-ubuntu-test-in-updates which is not on the iso. | 14:06 |
| xnox | maybe like forever in proposed, but then we need to boot with proposed enabled. sigh | 14:06 |
| Laney | it should be ok to test something which is just not in the pool I guess | 14:07 |
| Laney | can you try it pls | 14:07 |
| Laney | https://people.canonical.com/~laney/temp/ | 14:07 |
| Laney | what | 14:34 |
| Laney | is console-setup/Keyboard/KeyboardNames.pl and why is it being created | 14:34 |
| xnox | d-i thing does that | 14:38 |
| xnox | always on clean, and recreates it at build | 14:38 |
| xnox | i don't know how to make it stop | 14:38 |
| xnox | we didn't used to care as we didn't track console-setup in git before | 14:38 |
| Laney | ok for some reason it's not there this time | 14:45 |
| Laney | /shrug | 14:46 |
| realtime-neil | xnox: that `iso=` trick isn't working for me --- I've got `ip=dhcp iso=http://_gateway:3003/ubuntu-20.04-live-server-amd64.iso` (where I'm serving it) and qemu is erroring out with "No init found. Try passing init= bootarg" | 19:28 |
| CarlFK | realtime-neil: what is your boot media and files? | 19:49 |
| CarlFK | this is my qemu line to test a usb stick: https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-video-team/ansible/-/blob/master/usbinst/test_thumb.sh | 19:50 |
| CarlFK | this script constructs URLs and downloads the files to put on the stick: https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-video-team/ansible/-/blob/master/usbinst/mk_usb_installer.sh | 19:51 |
| realtime-neil | CarlFK: this is what I'm trying to do: https://salsa.debian.org/snippets/461 | 20:06 |
| realtime-neil | I don't need to test removable media so much as tell the early userspace to grab an iso from the _gateway and boot _that_. | 20:07 |
| realtime-neil | xnox: I'm trying to use the functionality you added here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/1.422 ; every time, it fails saying "runi-" | 20:56 |
| realtime-neil | "run-init: current directory on the same filesystem as the root: error 0", and five times at that | 20:57 |
| CarlFK | realtime-neil: you are booting the kernel and initrd from the iso image, and then trying to get it to read the iso over http. do I have that right ? | 20:58 |
| realtime-neil | yes, that's correct | 20:58 |
| realtime-neil | I don't know another way of doing that. | 20:58 |
| realtime-neil | CarlFK: well, I'm sure there are others, but this is the way I want to do it. | 20:59 |
| CarlFK | the cd kernel/init may be expecting local media, not over the network | 21:00 |
| CarlFK | the "net install" images may be needed for over the net | 21:00 |
| realtime-neil | CarlFK: then I've clearly misunderstood the changes mentioned here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/1.422 | 21:01 |
| CarlFK | but I don't know if/where they are for the new ubuntu installer | 21:01 |
| CarlFK | ok, never mind me. Yeah, looks like what you are doing is spozed to work | 21:02 |
| realtime-neil | I'm looking for something inside that *.iso that reports the version of casper it's using, but I don't know where to look. | 21:04 |
| CarlFK | realtime-neil: I think you need to change iso=http... to url=http... | 21:04 |
| realtime-neil | CarlFK: tried both; they both fail the same way. | 21:05 |
| CarlFK | at least make it match the docs | 21:06 |
| realtime-neil | CarlFK: I've updated my kvm-test snippet accordingly | 21:06 |
| CarlFK | but the error does make me think it isn't getting 'there' yet | 21:06 |
| CarlFK | also run this in it's own term without the >null python3 -m http.server 3003 | 21:07 |
| CarlFK | see if it gets a hit | 21:07 |
| realtime-neil | checking... | 21:07 |
| CarlFK | does this put the files in casper/ ? 7z x "${PWD}/ubuntu-20.04-live-server-amd64.iso" "casper/vmlinuz" | 21:08 |
| realtime-neil | ...yeah, nothing is hitting the server | 21:10 |
| realtime-neil | CarlFK: yes, all extracted paths are created relative to $PWD | 21:11 |
| realtime-neil | I'm looking at the [casper man page](http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man7/casper.7.html) and wondering if the `netboot=` parameter (implicitly set by `url=`) has anything to do with this? | 21:12 |
| realtime-neil | Here's something... the `_gateway` notation is (apparently) okay for a `seedfrom=` (`s=`), but `url=` seems to hate it. | 22:24 |
| CarlFK | realtime-neil: oh... try using the IP | 22:25 |
| CarlFK | what is _gateway ? | 22:25 |
| realtime-neil | I saw it here: | 22:26 |
| realtime-neil | https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/autoinstall-quickstart | 22:26 |
| realtime-neil | but that's the first time I saw it. | 22:26 |
| realtime-neil | Ha! As long as you feed it the IP address of the machine running that `python -m http.server 3003 `, then it actually downloads the iso. | 22:29 |
| realtime-neil | Wow. This ubuntu-20.04-live-server-amd64.iso needs a kvm with more than 2048 MiB RAM | 22:30 |
| CarlFK | well.. at least you are making progress | 22:43 |
| realtime-neil | CarlFK: I know, right! | 22:46 |
| realtime-neil | Okay, cool, cool. CarlFK, I'm going to borrow heavily from those scripts you linked. That's exactly what I need to be doing for my remastered installation media image. | 22:47 |
| CarlFK | woo hoo!!! | 22:49 |
| mwhudson | realtime-neil: glad you got things working | 22:57 |
| mwhudson | slightly surprised 2G is required but yeah, netboot does require quite a lot of ram | 22:58 |
| realtime-neil | mwhudson: you and me both ... between the ~900MiB compressed iso and the ~225MiB uncompressed initrd, I guess it blew through 2GiB in hurry. | 23:03 |
| mwhudson | accessing the iso over iscsi would help | 23:04 |
| mwhudson | but well one thing at a time | 23:04 |
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