On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:22:27AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > 1. Installer requires devfs support. In 2.6 devfs is pretty much > > deprecated, so it would be nice if d-i could handle a non devfs kernel. > > It doesnt look like there are too many places that care. The initrd had > > an empty /dev, thats easily fixed. It looks like the stuff that parses > > /proc/partitions expects devfs style names but I havent looked into the > > code yet. > > Past discussion about these issues suggest that devfs is indeed needed, > but will not be enabled by default if you don't pass the devfs=mount or > something such command. My personal experience on this subject doesn't > seem to support this theory, at least for 2.6 kernels.
?? devfs is marked deprecated in 2.6. And the devfs names in /proc/partitions thing is a 2.4 bug when devfs is enabled. /proc/partitions shouldn't show device names at all, just unique identifiers for devices. That's what it has always done, except for Linux 2.4 with devfs enabled. > Same as above, d-i doesn't support subarches yet. That said, parted > should be available, and normally you should be able to use partitioner > and/or autopartkit transparently. What partitioning scheme are your box > using ? > > > 4. shm is not a valid filesystem in 2.6. Changing /sbin/init to use > > tmpfs fixed this. > > Mmm, no idea about this one, maybe a special 2.6 kernel support for d-i > would be nice to have, a bit like woody's boot-floppies supported 2.2 > and 2.4 kernels ? shm is just an alias to tmpfs on 2.4 kernel. You should always use the tmpfs name. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
