Re: [Bug 1690228] Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

[Nish Aravamudan]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:48 AM, bugproxy  wrote:
> --- Comment From gpicc...@br.ibm.com 2017-06-22 13:46 EDT---
> nacc, the URLs are:
>
> 16.04.3 (beta) -> http://ppa.launchpad.net/breno-
> leitao/di/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/installer-ppc64el/current/images/hwe-
> netboot/ubuntu-installer/ppc64el/
>
> 17.04 -> http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/zesty/main
> /installer-ppc64el/current/images/netboot/ubuntu-installer/ppc64el/
>
> 17.10 (beta) -> http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/artful/main
> /installer-ppc64el/current/images/netboot/ubuntu-installer/ppc64el/
>
> We can test with more netboot installations if required, but I guess
> worth you folks to take a look in other archs too...

Thanks, quick summary from the #ubuntu-devel IRC discussion: the
netboot installer is a minimal image (not server specific), not
intended to have every package installed in it. The premise is,
presuming successful netboot in the first place, you then can install
whatever packages you need, either via preseed or via manual
selection.

Colin Watson pointed out the d-i environment has an ethtool-lite, and
perhaps the right choice is to extend the functionality of that tool
to support whatever is needed from ethtool itself, rather than adding
ethtool to the d-i environment.

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Re: [Bug 1690228] Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

[Nish Aravamudan]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Nish Aravamudan
 wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 7:49 AM, bugproxy  wrote:
>> --- Comment From gpicc...@br.ibm.com 2017-06-22 10:44 EDT---
>> Hi folks, I just tested multiple versions of Ubuntu, and will paste a matrix 
>> with the results.
>>
>> ethtool is present?
>> |During installer  |On distro, after first boot
>> 16.04.2 (ISO)   |  NO
>>|  YES
>> 16.04.3 (beta installer/netboot)|  NO
>>|   NO
>> 17.04 (netboot)|  NO 
>>   |   NO
>> 17.10 (beta installer/netboot)   |  NO   
>> |   NO
>
> For the three netboot cases, what is your source for the netboot
> image? URL, etc.

I think this might be the disconnect -- the netboot image is a minimal
image, agnostic to installation tasks (it just gets you into the
installer environment). It does *not*, in contrast to the Ubuntu
Server ISO from releases.ubuntu.com, have any tasks pre-selected
specifically for server.

So, if you want to install "Ubuntu Server" via netboot, you must
select the "Basic Ubuntu Server" task as you reported (I think) (you
might also be able to preseed this, if you want to specifically test
this always).

Otherwise the 'seeded' entries for server will not be installed.

Now, this leads to the other issue (as I mentioned in a prior comment)
-- that you might also need ethtool itself in the minimal netboot
environment, in order to set some hardware values. I think that
decision needs to be made by the Foundations folks who are watching
this bug (Steve?).

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Re: [Bug 1690228] Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

[Nish Aravamudan]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 7:49 AM, bugproxy  wrote:
> --- Comment From gpicc...@br.ibm.com 2017-06-22 10:44 EDT---
> Hi folks, I just tested multiple versions of Ubuntu, and will paste a matrix 
> with the results.
>
> ethtool is present?
> |During installer  |On distro, after first boot
> 16.04.2 (ISO)   |  NO 
>   |  YES
> 16.04.3 (beta installer/netboot)|  NO 
>   |   NO
> 17.04 (netboot)|  NO  
>  |   NO
> 17.10 (beta installer/netboot)   |  NO
>|   NO

For the three netboot cases, what is your source for the netboot
image? URL, etc.

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Re: [Bug 1690228] Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

[Nish Aravamudan]

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 7:59 AM, bugproxy  wrote:
> --- Comment From gpicc...@br.ibm.com 2017-05-26 10:50 EDT---
> (In reply to comment #14)
>> @IBM: As Christian asked in c#1, I would like clarification for what
>> environment is being used where ethtool is not present?
>>
>> Both the server ISO and the cloud images should have ethtool installed by
>> default. So are you asking for ethtool to be present in the net installer?
>>
>> @IBM, apologies, I misread c#2. So this is really about providing ethtool in
>> the netboot installer image?
>
> No problem nacc! Well, let me clarify:
>
> 1) I started a netboot installer and complete the installation to the
> system;

Netboot installation of what? Ubuntu server?

> 2) I booted the system, and ethtool wasn't present. But..I had an issue
> with network that might have been circumvented with ethtool (i40e driver
> stuff).

So this isn't (necessarily) about the netboot installer (or any
installer) environment, but that in all *installed* environments
(presumably server/cloud only), ethtool is available. Is that
accurate?

> So, the request here is that netboot installer *does install* the
> ethtool by default. Would be a good bonus to get the ethtool on the
> installer itself (I know this installer is minimal, but I think ethtool
> is a small tool).
>
> Rationale: ethtool + iproute2 are the "Swiss Army knife" for networking
> configuration and troubleshooting...it'd be nice to get them both
> installed as default (and if it's not asking too much, be present in
> installers too heheh). iproute2 already is!

And then there is a secondary request for adding it to the installer
environment itself.

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