On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 01:28:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > > Hello Debian-installer team, > > > > After testing beta 1 and beta 2, I tried beta 3, with the > > same goal in mind: install Debian in a file using a loop > > device. > > > > As far as I could see, all beta detected the hardware of > > the box fine. > > > > beta 1 and 2 lacked the minimal support to create loop device, > > but the situation has improved : now there is a 'dd' utility and 'mount' > > support '-oloop' provide we issue modprobe loop before calling mount > > (which I found a bit confusing, it would be better if the module was > > autoloaded, but never mind). There is no 'losetup' but it is probably not > > neccessary. > > Sounds like you have all the pieces you need to write a partman-loop > module that adds loopback support directly to partman.
Not really... Also my goal is to see whether d-i is able to handle oddball situations where the `classical' install scheme is not suitable. In this regard, b-f was excellent, and d-i is steadily improving. > > Now, the problem is that I can't find any way to skip the 'partman' > > step of d-i. b-f conveniently detected that /target existed and > > allow to go to 'install base system' directly. > > Just mount /target, edit /var/lib/dpkg/status to mark partman as already > configured, and skip over it in the menu. Thanks, it works. At this point I can install the base system but now installing kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386 fail: /usr/bin/mkinitrd: Cannot determine root device. E: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned with an error codde (1) Of course I need to use my custom initrd able to boot a loop device. Well, I edited /var/lib/dpkg/status again to skip base-installer and I tried prebaseconfig which was not an huge success. (tzconfig failed) and the tty was generally messed up so dselect is unusable. Probably a more convenient way to tell d-i to skip an installation step could be useful. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
