2008/05/30/#ubuntu-installer.txt

[00:10] <xivulon> cjwatson, this is the logs after changing the preseed.cfg as indicated: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5064763&postcount=39
[00:12] <cjwatson> argh why do people insist on using sendspace
[00:12] <cjwatson> May 28 20:27:23 ubuntu partman-auto-loop: Error: Partition number 5 not found in /var/lib/partman/devices/=dev=sda
[00:13] <cjwatson> which appears to be because libparted doesn't recognise any partitions at all on /dev/sda
[00:13] <cjwatson> I need the output of 'sudo od -tx1 -Ax -N512 /dev/sda' from a terminal window on the live CD
[00:14] <cjwatson> (extract hex dump of boot sector, including partition table
[00:14] <cjwatson> )
[00:14] <cjwatson> sounds like it could conceivably be a bug I just fixed in parted, but it might be something else
[00:17] <cjwatson> I'll post a followup
[00:18] <cjwatson> I hate bug reports in forums threads, the only way I can get decent mail notifications is to sign up for a horrendous amount of junk mail, and everyone attaches files in crazy ways
[00:21] <TheMuso> cjwatson: Thats why I try and avoid forums altogether. :p IMO they are not efficient for any form of development/bug workflow.
[04:57] <superm1> TheMuso, the problem is sometimes users aren't willing (or able in some cases) to learn how to use launchpad.  I've learned this the hard way with mythbuntu as i suspect xivulon has encountered with wubi.  once you start to get a non technical audience involved, you have to walk them through a lot, and suddenly throwing them into oh please file a bug against X package at this brand new website that you have to register for and then keep
[04:57] <superm1>  up on bug mail...
[04:57] <superm1> yeah
[05:01] <TheMuso> This is true.
[07:59] <SATA> can anybody explain how the debian-installer works in ubuntu?
[08:24] <SATA>  can anybody explain how the debian-installer works in ubuntu?
[08:30] <soren> SATA: You fill in the blanks, click next a few times, and you're done.
[08:30] <SATA> soren, I could'nt get you?
[08:31] <soren> You put in the CD, you answer the questions, and that's it.
[08:32] <SATA> soren, can you clearify?
[08:32] <SATA> soren,  I couldnt get you.
[08:32] <soren> Which part is unclear?
[08:32] <SATA> soren, i placed my kernel in extra section. I created a iso.
[08:33] <SATA> soren,: which cd are you talking about?
[08:33] <soren> server.
[08:33] <SATA> yea
[08:34] <SATA> soren, what should i do to install the customized kernel by default.
[08:35] <soren> Depends.
[08:35] <soren> Changing the preseed to choose your kernel might be a good start.
[08:36] <SATA> how? I just added another kernel in /pool/extra/... section . I tried to change the preseed file, But how. what should i write in place of linux-server?
[08:38] <SATA> this is the line for kernel: d-i     base-installer/kernel/override-image    string linux-server
[08:39] <SATA> soren, any hint?
[08:40] <soren> What's your kernel image called?
[08:41] <SATA> linux-image-2.6.24-16-openvz_2.6.24-16.30_i386.deb
[08:41] <SATA> I downloaded it from http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/linux/linux-image-2.6.24-16-openvz_2.6.24-16.30_i386.deb
[08:41] <soren> Then put d-i     base-installer/kernel/override-image    string  linux-image-2.6.24-16-openvz
[08:42] <SATA> thanx
[09:26] <SATA> soren, can you help me to add package's for automatic installation during the installation from cd.
[09:26] <SATA> for server-cd
[09:29] <soren> You should look at the example preseed file. It has examples for that sort of thing.
[09:34] <SATA> soren, ok
[11:55] <CIA-1> net-retriever: cjwatson * r349 ubuntu/ (6 files in 2 dirs):
[11:55] <CIA-1> net-retriever: Deduplicate Packages files before passing them to anna (LP: #234486).
[11:55] <CIA-1> net-retriever: Circumstances conspire to make this excessively difficult, including
[11:55] <CIA-1> net-retriever: requiring net-retriever to become Architecture: any; this should really
[11:55] <CIA-1> net-retriever: be done in libdebian-installer, but for the meantime that's even harder.
[11:56] <CIA-1> net-retriever: cjwatson * r350 ubuntu/ (debian/changelog net-retriever):
[11:56] <CIA-1> net-retriever: Fetch packages from security host if trying to fetch them from the main
[11:56] <CIA-1> net-retriever: host fails (LP: #94398).
[12:00] <CIA-1> net-retriever: cjwatson * r347 hardy-proposed/ (6 files in 2 dirs): backport r349 and r350 from trunk
[12:42] <CIA-1> net-retriever: cjwatson * r351 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.21ubuntu2
[12:58] <CIA-1> net-retriever: cjwatson * r348 hardy-proposed/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.18ubuntu5
[13:16] <CIA-1> net-retriever: cjwatson * r352 ubuntu/debian/ (changelog control):
[13:16] <CIA-1> net-retriever: Build-depend on libdebian-installer4-dev; add ${shlibs:Depends} to
[13:16] <CIA-1> net-retriever: net-retriever's dependencies.
[13:17] <CIA-1> net-retriever: cjwatson * r353 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.21ubuntu3
[13:18] <CIA-1> net-retriever: cjwatson * r348 hardy-proposed/debian/control: backport r352 from trunk
[13:21] <CIA-1> net-retriever: cjwatson * r349 hardy-proposed/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.18ubuntu5
[17:54]  * cjwatson worries that https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/235998/comments/4 sounds like me trying to socially-engineer the bug reporter into extracting sensitive data from his disk for me, but there's not much I can do about that :(
[17:54] <cjwatson> "hi, please run this incomprehensible command for me"
[17:57] <evand> heh
[17:58] <cjwatson> how is 8.04.1 going for you? I have been sucked into low-level bug-fixing for the last couple of days and have not been able to pay attention to it all
[17:58] <mario_limonciell> geez, where' d that number come from? 193478656 seems rather arbitrary
[17:59] <cjwatson> it's 00 40 88 0b (offset 01e6 in their boot sector) interpreted as little-endian
[18:00] <cjwatson> the extended partition table isn't at a fixed location on the disk - it's just wherever the logical partitions it contains happen to fall
[18:00] <evand> If they're from the forums, they're used to running random commands that people throw at them.
[18:00] <cjwatson> 01e2 in the boot sector is 0x0f, which is the LBA extended partition type
[18:01] <evand> cjwatson: fairly well.  I've mostly been handling Wubi fixes, but as I've now got those all in I can focus on helping in other areas of the milestone list.
[18:01] <mario_limonciell> cjwatson, i'm hoping you had to refer to a guide that indicated what the different parts of the boot sector represented.  if you knew off the top of your head what that offset referred to, that's just scary :)
[18:02] <cjwatson> I referred to libparted's code
[18:02] <mario_limonciell> ah okay. that's much more sane
[18:03] <cjwatson> though after you've read a few boot sector dumps it's fairly easy to see; the partition table is the first 64 bytes out of the last 66 (the last 2 are the 55 aa magic number), in 16-byte blocks
[18:03] <cjwatson> so it lines up nicely in od output
[18:16] <cjwatson> evand: do you have anything else that goes in d-i initrds that you're planning to upload?
[18:16] <cjwatson> I'll need to organise a d-i upload at some point
[18:22] <evand> cjwatson: not that I can think of.
[20:58] <CIA-1> ubiquity: evand * r2683 ubiquity/debian/po/ (79 files): debconf-updatepo
[21:50] <evand> superm1: I'm going to step out for a few hours in a bit.  If you have any objection to a ubiquity build when I get back (probably around 11 PM EST), please let me know in here and I'll hold off.
[23:34] <superm1> okay will do