On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:15 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for providing the patch and apologies for the late reply.
No worries, I've been off being distracted with getting a kernel package which can support Xen in a way which is useful for the installer too. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/01/msg00269.html. Once I have a sane story wrt how to boot such a kernel I'll be back looking at the d-i side of things again. > I just wonder how this works when partman does not have support for /dev/xv* > devices. I don't know ;-) I select Guided partitioning and it presents me with the options of /dev/xvda ("screenshot" below). I guess I'm hitting some generic fallback code which looks at /sys/block or something? (this is with an initrd built around the time I filed this bug, perhaps things have changed since). Ian. ?????????????????????????? [!!] Partition disks ??????????????????????????? ? ? ? Note that all data on the disk you select will be erased, but not ? ? before you have confirmed that you really want to make the changes. ? ? ? ? Select disk to partition: ? ? ? ? /dev/xvda - 4.3 GB Unknown ? ? ? ? <Go Back> ? ? ? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? <Tab> moves between items; <Space> selects; <Enter> activates buttons ????????????????????????? [!!] Partition disks ????????????????????????? ? ? ? If you continue, the changes listed below will be written to the ? ? disks. Otherwise, you will be able to make further changes manually. ? ? ? ? WARNING: This will destroy all data on any partitions you have ? ? removed as well as on the partitions that are going to be formatted. ? ? ? ? The partition tables of the following devices are changed: ? ? /dev/xvda ? ? ? ? The following partitions are going to be formatted: ? ? partition #1 of /dev/xvda as ext3 ? ? partition #5 of /dev/xvda as swap ? ? ? ? Write the changes to disks? ? ? ? ? <Go Back> <Yes> <No> ? ? ? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? <Tab> moves between items; <Space> selects; <Enter> activates buttons -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Isis - Over Root And Thorn Save energy: be apathetic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
