Hi Joey, On Friday 20 August 2004 12:51, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > I think it would be a good idea to have the option to mount an USB-stick > > early in the process of an i386 netboot installation. > > I seem to be overflowing in people asking for this, but none of them > explain *why* you'd want to do this.
I know you've closed this bug after setting the priority for the package to standard, but I'd like to reopen the discussion anyway. (Sorry I did not answer earlier, but I had a dying motherboard in my desktop at the time and had to switch a lot of stuff over to my laptop.) Setting the priority to standard allows to mount the USB-stick only after Netcfg, download of d-i components and HW-detect are run. I was thinking of including USB-stick support in the netboot initrd (so you could mount them straight after booting d-i) for the following reasons: - would allow user to save logs to USB-stick on laptops without floppy if installation fails before network is up; (especially if the patch by Osamu Aoki in #267219 makes it) - maybe preseed files could be read off the USB-stick; - I was going to use it myself for testing purposes (put modified versions of languagechooser/countrychooser files on the stick and copy them over the default ones before running these steps). A disadvantage could be that I think mounting a USB-stick early would make the stick /dev/disc/disc0 and put any ide/scsi discs after that. The stick would then also be listed first in partman. However, the same is probably currently true for CD and floppy installs. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
