On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:17:38 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:05:43AM +0100, Stefan Tibus wrote: >> - The evms-udeb links /lib/libevms-2.3.so.0 to libevms.so instead >> of libevms-2.3.so.0.0. Furthermore libncurses(5?) is missing >> and the "EVMS module for debian-installer" does not work at all. >> Fixing the two library issues makes evmsn run (though it does not >> really work, due to lacking kernel support), the d-i module >> remains broken.
>I haven't had time to finish this udeb; if there is some way to hide it by >default without removing it entirely, I would like to do that. >Is the d-i kernel really lacking device-mapper? That has been a standard >part of Debian kernel-source since 2.4.23, and is needed for lvm2 as well >(which I believe has a working udeb). Well, the kernel has the device-mapper, but EVMS requires additional patches: (from the installation instructions) "In addition to the base MD and Device-Mapper support, EVMS requires a few additional patches for certain EVMS features to work correctly with these drivers. These patches are provided in the EVMS package, in the kernel/2.4/ and kernel/2.6/ subdirectories." ...and after all, it didn't work (didn't find any disc). So I hacked my netinst-iso yesterday to include a 2.6.4 kernel with the latest EVMS. This required some modifications to the initrd in order for debian-installer coming up (I have everything I need in the kernel, so I don't bother about errors when loading modules for now - network-config did it's job anyways). At boot-time EVMS shows up now, but it looks like I have to recompile the user interface also, it stops with some error 22, invalid parameter (sorry don't have the full message available now). Hopefully I can continue on that this evening and see whether the installer can continue after manually creating my file systems. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
