Hello everyone,
Does anyone know if the new release of Debian will contain/allow
installation on an NBD (network block device)?
Some time ago, I was installing Debian 11 (bullseye) for some diskless
machine. And, while finally I succeeded, I had a few unnecessary
obstacles which made that process more time-consuming and difficult than
it should be.
Debian installer, despite the fact that it contains nbd kernel modules,
was lacking the nbd-client, an application that would allow to actually
set the remote-attached device up and available for installation. And
the nbd-client had to be dug _manually_ from a udeb package (the one
from regular Debian does not work as installer environment does not have
some libraries) and, of course, transferred _manually_ through network
to the installation system.
Besides that, target system's initrd was missing things allowing to
mount an nbd as the root device. Though not that difficult, I had to
prepare that myself (again, time spent on things that could just be there).
I will not go to further details here, anyone interested can go to:
https://t-w.github.io/debian/2022/03/09/diskless_debian_11_pxe_nbd/
for details.
My question is - does anyone know if these things will be fixed in the
new upcoming release (bookworm)? And if not - where should I ask and
provide info to eventually push for making these minor but, IMHO, very
useful changes?
(I do not want to pollute dev. mailing lists unnecessarily, if this
should go there, please let me know where exactly. For me,
debian-b...@lists.debian.org seems to be the right place for this issue).
(Thanks in advance).
Regards,
Tomasz
