Hi, I'd like to modify d-i for my own need: install debian with partition on an AOE device. If you're not aware of what AOE is, let's say it's network block device technology that relies on ethernet (not tcp/ip). In short, to use such device we should have to load a kernel module and run few commands to stat the devices eventually after having specified the network interfaces the tools should look for aoe devices.
I have read few docs from debian alioth about customizing installers images, but before beginning, I'd like to collect more advices/informations from people that know d-i. If I understood correctly I would have to create a udeb package of the aoetools and assigne a menu item number to have an entry displayed in by main-menu right? Then first questions: - As recommended in the doc I ask here for a such a number that would allow to have aoe devices detected after all ethernet card are installed and before partman is launched. - How do I make sure d-i will install the newly created udeb package? Maybe loading aoetools in d-i should be based on user's decision... how to do this? For my setup to work after install, I will need target system to have aoetools automatically installed. I wanted to achieve this useing an "apt-install" request as a post-install script of aoetools udeb... Does it sounds right? Is there a better way? Finnaly the setup I trying to complete (AOEroot), will require a modified initrd on the target system too... I suspect this being out of the scope of the d-i, but being more related to the regular debian package aoetools. Agree? I remember multipath-tools once had a package named multipath-tools-boot (or something like that) which added support for multipath devices to the initrd. Is this approach still valuable? Best regards. -- horoa: la voie est libre
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