[12:49] <CIA-18> ubiquity: evand * r2312 ubiquity/ (configure configure.ac): Bump to 1.6.2
[12:50] <CIA-18> ubiquity: evand * r2313 ubiquity/debian/ (changelog init):
[12:50] <CIA-18> ubiquity: * Add 'only-ubiquity' option to kernel cmdline to run ubiquity in a
[12:50] <CIA-18> ubiquity:  minimal session. Thanks Tormod Volden (LP: #148341).
[05:52] <CIA-18> ubiquity: evand * r2314 ubiquity/ (debian/changelog ubiquity/components/migrationassistant.py): * Filter out partition selections that do not have any users.
[05:52] <evand> I probably should've stuck 'migration-assistant' in there somewhere.
[10:29] <xivulon> cjwatson, evand, I uploaded the wubi-cdonly version
[10:29] <xivulon> http://wubi-installer.org/devel/minefields/
[10:29] <xivulon> one thing: if the CD is inserted when you reboot all is dandy
[10:30] <xivulon> but if the CD is not inserted the user is thrown into the shell
[10:30] <xivulon> it would be nice to have some sort of message like: please insert the CD and press enter
[10:32] <xivulon> by the way, the flag changed from "--liveboot" to "--cdboot"
[10:32] <xivulon> In Ubuntu-cdboot the flag is always set
[10:33] <cjwatson> xivulon: please mail Henrik to tell him about that
[10:33] <xivulon> will do
[10:33] <cjwatson> since he will need to adjust winfoss
[10:34] <cjwatson> I'll make it be wubi-cdboot.exe on the disk
[10:51] <xivulon> please test it
[10:52] <xivulon> also have a look at this issue about the CD not being inserted. I seemed to remember that the initrd would ask for it, but maybe I am confusing with the alternate one
[10:52] <cjwatson> you are confusing it with alternate
[10:53] <cjwatson> I'm not going to add that feature to casper at this point
[10:53] <xivulon> hmm, not sure then if it's wise to include wubi at all
[10:54] <xivulon> if users have no CD they will see the initrd sh
[10:55] <xivulon> anyway try it by changing your boot priority, with and without CD, then you decide
[10:57] <cjwatson> if they have no CD then they will hardly be running wubi-cdboot from the CD
[10:57] <cjwatson> this is about what we put on the CD, so by definition they have a CD
[10:57] <xivulon> cjwatson, what I mean is if the bios is 1HD, 2CD, but if at the time they reboot the tray is open
[10:57] <cjwatson> *shrug* don't do that then :)
[10:58] <cjwatson> it's still better than not having the facility
[10:58] <cjwatson> IMO
[10:58] <xivulon> sure
[10:59] <xivulon> I'll have to change the reboot text
[10:59] <xivulon> now it asks to remove the cd
[10:59] <xivulon> will do tonight
[11:00] <cjwatson> oh, yeah, that would be excessively confusing in this case
[11:01] <cjwatson> and clearly not necessary
[11:01] <xivulon> I forgot to do that yesterday, it's a quick fix
[11:01] <xivulon> but cannot do it now
[11:03] <xivulon> by the way, yesterday build still had old autopartition/lupin
[11:04] <xivulon> and am still stack with this mkfs issue (when running strace mkfs, it works)
[11:21] <cjwatson> gar STOP LEAVING
[11:21] <cjwatson> really inconvenient
[01:50] <smp> Hi,i am tring to install my debian distro from local network,I booted from the network and got the installation prompt.but after installed hardware detection phase it failed because it didnot find any installation media in my cdrom as i am using the same initrd/kernel/preseed file for network installation which is same for normal installation (from CD).SO HOW TO OVERCOME THE PROBLEM..?Plz help
[01:51] <cjwatson> smp: I'm afraid we don't offer help with Debian here
[01:52] <cjwatson> smp: (though I would suggest *not* using the same initrd as for CD installation; there's a specialised netboot initrd which is likely to work much better!)
[01:52] <cjwatson> smp: if the above doesn't help, #debian-boot on irc.oftc.net would be more appropriate
[01:54] <smp> Cjwatson:thanks,but can u tell me is there any way to do the normal installation so that it should not go to check installation media in local cdrom drive.
[01:56] <cjwatson> see above, please
[01:57] <cjwatson> this channel is for the Ubuntu installer, not Debian
[01:57] <smp> cjwatson:rather it should download files from my local server where i mounted my iso image.can i do it by suppling any boot parameters
[01:58] <cjwatson> no, use netboot
[01:58] <smp> for ubuntu also if i want to do the same thing i think this problem will come
[01:58] <cjwatson> for Ubuntu, use netboot
[01:58] <cjwatson> the cdrom initrd will not work in this circumstance
[02:00] <smp> but how to modify the exsisting initrd for netboot?
[02:00] <cjwatson> you don't.
[02:00] <cjwatson> download the netboot initrd from the archive
[02:01] <cjwatson> you cannot do this based on the cdrom initrd.
[02:01] <smp> i have the installer source code .and i compiled it and then i got mini.iso inside /installer/temp
[02:01] <cjwatson> there is no need to build it yourself
[02:01] <cjwatson> both Debian and Ubuntu ship this in their archives
[02:02] <cjwatson> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ for Ubuntu; see the Debian installer web site for the Debian links
[02:03] <smp> ok,but i need my custom initrd.how to do that ?
[02:04] <cjwatson> folks customising the initrd are expected to be experts and/or to read the documentation. Failing that, please ask in the correct place.
[02:04] <cjwatson> I'm happy to help if you're customising Ubuntu, but it doesn't sound like you are at present. In the meantime, I don't think it's fair to ask me to support Debian in an Ubuntu channel.
[02:07] <smp> ok.can u tell me some sources to modify ubuntu's exsisting netboot initrd
[02:08] <cjwatson> 'apt-get source debian-installer' on an Ubuntu system
[02:13] <smp> cjwatson:thanks for ur help.but this will download only the source code in my system.what i have.i need some docs to change/compile the source code
[02:16] <cjwatson> there is documentation in the doc/ subdirectory of the debian-installer source package, though it hasn't been adapted for Ubuntu
[02:16] <cjwatson> I cannot teach you how to be a developer in general though
[06:25] <CIA-18> ubiquity: jriddell * r2315 trunk/ (debian/changelog ubiquity/frontend/PartitionsBarKde.py): red looks dangerous to our western eyes, change ext 3 in kde partition bar to cyan
[08:16] <xivulon> I changed the reboot text
[09:29] <CIA-18> migration-assistant: evand * r63 migration-assistant/ (debian/changelog ma-ask): * Fix IFS handling (LP: #145712, #135149)
[09:38] <mebrown> quick question: what are the 'mkisofs' command parameters that are used to create the live cd?
[09:39] <mebrown> The last step of my installation is going to create a new live CD image of the reinstallation partition for the customer to burn if they want
[09:52] <mebrown> evand, ping.
[09:52] <mebrown> evand, just tested todays daily build and looks like everything is there and works.
[09:53] <evand> mebrown: great!  I'm trying to find the answer to your question.
[09:54] <mebrown> ok, thx.
[09:54] <mebrown> I have a mkisofs cmdline that I am using in the meantime...
[09:54] <mebrown> mkisofs -o /target/home/ubuntu-dell-reinstall.iso \
[09:54] <mebrown>     -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.catalog \
[09:54] <mebrown>     -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4
[09:54] <mebrown>     -boot-info-table \
[09:54] <mebrown>     -pad -r -J -joliet-long -N -hide-joliet-trans-tbl \
[09:54] <mebrown>     -publisher "Dell Inc." \
[09:54] <mebrown>     -V "Dell Ubuntu Reinstallation Media" \
[09:54] <mebrown>     /cdrom/
[10:00] <evand> /usr/bin/mkisofs -r -V Ubuntu\ 7.10\ amd64 -o /srv/cdimage.ubuntu.com/scratch/ubuntu/daily-live/debian-cd/amd64/gutsy-desktop-amd64.raw -cache-inodes -J -l -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -sort /srv/cdimage.ubuntu.com/scratch/ubuntu/daily-live/tmp/gutsy-amd64/1.weights boot1 CD1
[10:00] <evand> from: ttp://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/cd-build-logs/ubuntu/gutsy/daily-live-20071004.log
[10:00] <evand> mebrown: ^
[10:01] <mebrown> thanks.
[10:01] <evand> anytime
[10:01] <mebrown> I'll update my script
[10:01] <mebrown> Right now, I am wrestling with language pack stuff.
[10:01] <mebrown> What I was thinking:
[10:02] <evand> ah yes, be aware that there's an outstanding bug that I have to fix tonight where the langugage pack step will fail without a network connection
[10:02] <mebrown> hmmm.
[10:02] <mebrown> so that will work in tomorrows daily?
[10:02] <evand> hopefully
[10:02] <evand> if not soon thereafter
[10:02] <mebrown> I need to run this idea by you... just a sec, brb
[10:03] <evand> ok
[10:04] <mebrown> What I was thinking was creating a repo with all the language packs
[10:04] <mebrown> just like the repo that is already on the DVD
[10:04] <mebrown> but smaller.
[10:04] <mebrown> I need an easy way to do this, and havent really figured anything out.
[10:04] <mebrown> I was thinking I could use apt-get in download-only mode
[10:04] <mebrown> and then I would have to add those to the repo and redo the repo metadata
[10:05] <mebrown> We have pared down the languages to 5 or 6
[10:05] <evand> hrmm
[10:06] <mebrown> english, french, german, portugues, spanish, simplified chinese
[10:07] <mebrown> also (unrelated): need to find a way to get rid of the "remove media and press enter to reboot" at the end.
[10:08] <evand> you might be able to get around that by shutting down usplash: /etc/init.d/usplash start
[10:08] <evand> that's not a typo
[10:08] <evand> I'm not sure if that will work or not, it's untested
[10:08] <mebrown> ok. I'll test it, then... :)
[10:09] <evand> have you looked into debmirror for grabbing the languages?
[10:09] <evand> you might want to run your current idea by cjwatson
[10:09] <evand> he may know of a better way
[10:09] <mebrown> no, I havent
[10:09] <mebrown> I didnt even know about debmirror
[10:36] <bdmurray> evand: I was looking at bug 128258 and wondered what happens to people who installed from a tribe CD that didn't create '/etc/papersize'.  Do you have any idea?
[10:38] <evand> bdmurray: not sure
[10:38] <evand> I'd have to test that myself to find out :)
[10:39] <bdmurray> It is easy enough to manually fix but I wonder if many people will run into it.
[10:40] <evand> do we usually provide repair fixes for bugs that occur during the development cycle?
[10:40] <bdmurray> Another good question that I don't have the answer for.
[10:41] <bdmurray> I'm not sure how many things look at '/etc/papersize' too.
[10:42] <evand> hrm, cjwatson ^
[10:57] <mebrown> evand, '/etc/init.d/usplash start' does not fix
[10:58] <mebrown> there is a text line:
[10:58] <mebrown> "Please remove the disc and close the tray (if any) and press ENTER:"
[10:58] <mebrown> on the console
[10:58] <mebrown> and no shells that I can use to see what is giving that message... :(
[10:58] <mebrown> Is there already a launchpad on this issue?
[10:59] <evand> mebrown: not yet, but please file a bug and assign me to it.  I'll take care of it when I get back, but I have to step out for a few hours.
[11:01] <mebrown> against ubiquity?
[11:01] <mebrown> or casper?
[11:01] <evand> hrm, casper
[11:05] <mebrown> https://bugs.launchpad.net/dell/+bug/149159
[11:06] <evand> thanks
[11:52] <mebrown> evand, cjwatson ping...  is there a way to run automatic-ubiquity in text mode?
[11:52] <mebrown> am thinking of future systems where X doesnt run.
[11:54] <mebrown> need to be able to install them initially. we would update x server debs in the post-install.