what is this QA that you speak of?
Ubuntu released version 8.10 ('retarded raven' or some such pointless cutesy name) earlier this week. After jumping through the usual hoops to find an ubuntu mirror that even had the DVD ISO image, I got the thing downloaded. I spent some time earlier today porting over the kickstart scripts from 8.04 to 8.10, and attempted an install, which failed catastrophically. Very early on, just after the DHCP lease portion of the install, I saw a bunch of errors fly down the screen repeatedly that looked something
like:
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usage: getopt [options]
invalid option: -l
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However, the installation proceeds anyway for a little while. Then it completely dies with the following error:
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!! Partition disks
No root file system
No root file system is defined.
Please correct thsi from the partitioning menu
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At which point, choosing 'Continue' caused the same error to appear immediately. Selecting 'Go Back' took me to the master installed menu of options, and regardless of what I selected, I end up getting the same original error.
After talking to Ubuntu's kickstart developer, it turns out that, yes, this is a known bug. That's right, Ubuntu didn't test kickstart at all for the 8.10 release. Its 100% broken.
Please keep asking me why I dislike Ubuntu so much. Oh, I dunno, perhaps the complete lack of quality in their releases?