-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 07:25:58 +0200 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 3) my filesystem is actually ext3, not ext2, will the missing > > > ext3 module cause problems ? > > > > How do your /etc/fstab look like? > > > > If / is mounted as ext3 then that module should have been picked > > automatically. > > /dev/hda4 / ext2 > defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > > Huh, indeed, i wonder why it is noted as ext2, i always thought it > was an ext3. I thought so ;-) Experienced the same myself :-P > > I believe that for debian-installer use a different template needs > > to be written that probes less and instead statically includes a > > bunch of modules. I have no experience in this, so if you want to > > play with that, Sven, then you are more than welcome. > > you mean, how to detect the stuff during d-i run ? I guess a part of > that is available, or can easily be made available, from the debconf > templates, i will look at this next weekend. Maybe that is what I mean. What I mean is currently yaird only works from an already running 2.6 system with udev installed. So how to get there from an earlier system, from a system without udev installed, and from scratch. > ... Eek, yaird is full > of perl :/, i am not perl fluent, will see what i can do, my > contribution may possibly be more on a higher level, testing out and > proposing a method than implementation. Concentrate on the templates. They shouldn't be too perl'ish, I think. > The other issue is that we need a standard tool for creating an > initrd for d-i, which i belive could be common to yaird, initramfs > and d-i ? Could be nice. Do you think in the lines of yaird and initramfs coordinating on a set of debconf questions like MODULES_REQUIRED, MODULES_TRY, ROOT_DEV_DEFAULT? Is there some discussion about this already? Maybe even a wiki page about it? - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDLUYNn7DbMsAkQLgRApmzAKCITxbXuWfS1YnVUDEn2kotp9F+DwCgn/iU eumUpaSAynxSj/xXiAFDjOc= =1gPa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
