On 5/20/23 19:17, Stefan Monnier wrote:
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.
Have you reported a bug about this?
You might also get in touch with the maintainer of `nbd-client-udeb`
since that package seems designed for your use case, so if it doesn't
work well enough, they might like to know.
Well, it is not a problem with nbd-client-udeb, it is a problem with the
lack of it in Debian installer. And I am not quite sure if this is a bug
or just an unimplemented functionality. Debian installer do not have a
fully-fledged interface for configuring NBD, so this might be avoided
for a reason, like not giving people something that might/does not work.
My point is that I would like that it progressed a bit further so that,
at least, using the console of the installation system, nbd device could
be configured and used. The pieces I did proves that it does not require
much (esp. that my changes could be just used to improve at least initrd
in this matter; only adding nbd-client to the installer remains).
So, I am not sure if reporting a bug is a right place. There is no
particular package that I can point to...
Tomasz
