Hi Robert, Your help in testing the Ubuntu support is greatly appreciated.
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Robert Key <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi and thanks Cody, you doing the patch is fine. > > There are other important issues all be it simple: > > 1. For the udebs there must be a soft link to maverick and lucid ( or any > other ubuntu distributions) > in the directory: /usr/share/live/build/data/debian-cd that points to > squeeze. > > Without the link the installer will fail. > Daniel has added the actual data directories from Ubuntu's debian-cd branch so this won't be needed anymore. > 2. I also had to disable the gtk installer as vmlinuz and initrd.gz do not > appear under current/images/cdrom/gtk for the debian installer in the ubuntu > archives. > Yes. I was hoping Colin Watson would re-enable the GTK d-i build. Daniel: Feel free to update the default for Ubuntu to just have this disabled by default for Ubuntu for all releases. I'll send in a patch if you don't get around to it. > 3. I also disabled the win32loader as this is kept in a different place in > the ubuntu archive. > I'll look into this further. I thought this was already disabled by default though for Ubuntu. > 4. As far as the cd images are concerned they were simply accessed from > the ubuntu archive and appear in the binary image. When I installed the > install worked perfectly (in text mode, normal vga) > and was quite fast. > I assume you mean d-i images and not cd images here? > 5. Oh one other thing the boot parameter cdrom-detect/try-usb=true is vital > or else you will receive the message "could not load cd image. > If you're using usb-hdd then live-build should add that boot parameter automatically. If you're running into cases where it doesn't, please let file a bug. > Some notes for the install to work. > The partition on which the image is installed must be fat32 not ext4, ext3 > or else the cd is not found. > Thats interesting. The next time I'm looking at cdrom-detect I'll see about fixing that. > The partition does not have to be first on the disk but must be the first > one with a cd image on it as the search for cd images starts from 1 , 2, 3 > etc and stops as soon as one is found. If the wrong one is found the > message "no kernel modules found". > > Please remember the link 1. above. > Thanks for all your help. > Rob Key Thanks again! Cheers, -- Cody A.W. Somerville Release Engineer Foundations Team Custom Engineering Solutions Group Canonical OEM Services Phone: +1 781 850 2087 Cell: +1 613 401 5141 Fax: +1 613 687 7368 Email: [email protected]
