A wishlist bug report against the debian installer pseudo package would
seem to be an appropriate way to go.
I would also like to see nbd support in the installer. I'm guessing it
will be too late for bookworm, I tried that using the nightly installer
and had a similar problem - nbd kernel module was available but no
userspace tools.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=d-i.debian.org;dist=unstable
Thanks,
Alex
On 21/05/23 06:17, Tomasz Wolak wrote:
On 5/20/23 19:49, Tomasz Wolak wrote:
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...
But contacting the maintainer of the nbd-client seems to be a good
idea. I will do that. Thanks.
