Ubuntu CD Images

MiniCD needs a .disk/info structure

Bug #765254 reported by Marc Cluet
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu CD Images
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned
debian-installer (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Colin Watson
Ubuntu oneiric-alpha-1
Oneiric
Fix Released
Wishlist
Colin Watson
Ubuntu oneiric-alpha-1

Bug Description

There's no way to identify a miniCD image from its mounted contents.

It would be very useful for automatization with cobbler or other ISO deployment tools

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

Hi Colin,

We're trying to use the Ubuntu mini.iso for import into Cobbler for network installation.

Cobbler needs to extract some metadata about the ISO being imported, which is not present in our mini.iso's.

Would it be possible to get this information seeded in the Oneiric mini.iso's, once we start publishing them?

Cheers,
Dustin

Changed in ubuntu-cdimage:
status: New → Confirmed
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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

FWIW, this is closely related to Bug #765224

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

.disk/info is only supposed to be present for CDs that are usable as an installation source. Adding it to the netboot mini.iso would likely break things.

Changed in ubuntu-cdimage:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

We could do something else that doesn't clash with the existing semantics of .disk/info.

Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu Oneiric):
milestone: none → oneiric-alpha-1
Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I'm adding .disk/mini-info. It will look something like this (loosely based on the format of .disk/info):

  Ubuntu 11.10 "oneiric" - i386 (20101020ubuntu31)

Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package debian-installer - 20101020ubuntu32

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debian-installer (20101020ubuntu32) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Add .disk/mini-info to x86 mini.iso images, loosely based on the format
    of .disk/info (LP: #765254).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 27 May 2011 15:07:58 +0100

Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote : Re: [Bug 765254] Re: MiniCD needs a .disk/info structure

Awesome, thanks, Colin.

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