A couple of rants about Launchpad

[Chris Puttick]

> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:20:00 +0800
> From: Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>
> Subject: Re: A couple of rants about Launchpad
> To: Human sounds <sounder at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Colin Watson wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:44:37PM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>
>>> Colin Watson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Defining a recipe format for it (there's no real nesting in partition
>>>> recipes at the moment, which makes things like this a little more
>>>> difficult than they ought to be), and implementing that in
>>>> partman-auto-raid. Or possibly just some kind of reordering so that you
>>>> can run normal LVM autopartitioning after automatic RAID partitioning.
>>>>
>>> I see. So is it currently possible with a custom recipe or does d-i need
>>> some work before it can support such recipes?
>>>
>>
>> It isn't currently possible with a custom recipe, as far as I know.
>>
>>
>
> Ah okay. Had I not been led on on the ubuntu-installer mailing list I
> would have already had Ubuntu desktops in place for a pilot instead
> pursuing an impossible task.
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-installer/2008-December/000280.html
>
> Now I have to make do with just one Ubuntu desktop and almost got a ban
> on any Ubuntu or Linux desktop for that matter.
>

Me no understand. You can't do LVM/RAID mixes for preseeding and this
means no Ubuntu on the desktop? What are you using that can do LVM on
RAID and why do desktops need it?

Cheers

Chris