On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 12:48:45PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -----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.
Why do you need udev ? Is parsing /sys not enough ? I don't really care all that much about 2.4->2.6 upgrades myself though :) > > ... 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. Mmm, i did have a quick look, but didn't find a few good starters : 1) how to find the root directory. 2) where the input stuff is handled. 3) where the disk drivers are parsed. And what is the difference between Debian.cfg and Debian-initrd.cfg ? > > 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? Yeah, that would be cool too, but i was more of thinking of a sigle tool, which took a directory and produces either an initramfs or a ext2 or cramfs or whatever initrd. Which would be fully decoupled from what we put in it. > Is there some discussion about this already? Maybe even a wiki page > about it? Some one the list, but not much i think. The ubuntu guys use initramfs though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
