On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 02:29:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm wondering who wrote: > > > As linux-modules-extra-2.6-etchnhalf was not ready in time we decided to > > > skip it for r4 and include it in r5. > > Frans Pop wrote: > > Well done folks. You've again managed to break at least part of the > > functionality of Debian Installer and, more importantly, left users with > > a potentially unbootable system after installation. > > <fjp> You can now partition using loop-aes encryption, but the modules are not > available for the installed system. > <fjp> So you cannot access any loop-aes encrypted partitions. > <fjp> Or (hopefully) the installation will fail during finish-install. > > Well, it would seem we have the first peice of errata for the end of > http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/debian-installer/etchnhalf
How's this? Index: etchnhalf.wml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/releases/etch/debian-installer/etchnhalf.wml,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -p -r1.4 etchnhalf.wml --- etchnhalf.wml 15 Jul 2008 08:56:10 -0000 1.4 +++ etchnhalf.wml 27 Jul 2008 21:17:42 -0000 @@ -175,6 +175,9 @@ release. <h3 id="errata-r0">Errata specific to <q>etch-and-a-half</q></h3> <p> -No known issues. +Partitions encrypted using loop-AES will not be accessable after installation. +This issue is due to the absence of loop-aes kernel modules for the etchnhalf +kernel. These modules will be made available in the next update of Debian +GNU/Linux 4.0, 4.0r5. </p> </if-etchnhalf-released> -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
