<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Be careful here, I have a situation where an ISO-based install (both DVD and USB stick) doesn't display anything on screen (It's a headless unit, I tried every serial configuration change I could find to no avail, finally pulled the hard drive and did the install on a laptop). The last thing we want is for an accidental "Enter" to do something destructive. From what I've read that wouldn't happen in this situation but I did want to raise the awareness of things which do happen "in the field".</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"Jeffrey Lane" <jeff@ubuntu.com><br><b>To: </b>"ubuntu-server" <ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, November 27, 2017 10:22:40 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: Timeout for Ubuntu Server ISO bootsplash<br></div><br><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:39 PM Josh Powers <<a href="mailto:josh.powers@canonical.com" target="_blank">josh.powers@canonical.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <span><<a href="mailto:mathieu.trudel-lapierre@canonical.com" target="_blank">mathieu.trudel-lapierre@canonical.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;">On trans-oceanic links, 5 seconds is maybe cutting it a bit short, but<br>
I wouldn't make it past 15.<br></blockquote><br></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I am a +1 on making this change and would also prefer longer than 5</div><div>seconds. 15 sounds like a nice compromise.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">This discussion makes me wonder, how many people do ISO based Server</span><br style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">installs and would be affected by this?</span><br style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">Before things like MAAS came about, I very rarely did ISO based</span><br style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">installs of server OSs, we always automated via preseeds or kickstart</span><br style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">scripts and PXE booting.</span><br style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;"><br style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">I'm not commenting for or against, and for the record, I too would say</span><br style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">15 seconds is a good compromise. I'm really just asking to satisfy my</span><br style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">own curiosity.</span><br style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;"><br style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">Jeff</span><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div>Josh<br></div></div></div></div>
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