Hello Martin, On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 09:52 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > I'm afraid I really don't know much about open-iscsi and the details > why this patch was introduced. James, would be great if you can > provide some background. >
One reason to have support in the installer is to have your rootfs on a SAN device. Anaconda has had it for years. So I'm sure these patches must have the same intent for Ubuntu Enterprise LTS. For Debian too, some time ago, I looked at the possibility. IIRC, one of the components (scsi modules udeb) was unavailable on all architectures in Debian. > Ubuntu debian-installer does have some differences, but it's > generally the same. Does d-i really start services during > installation? I would have expected it to install a temporary > policy-rc.d, as presumably many services would fail in > the d-i environment still. Then calling update-initramfs would put > the > dummy initiator config into the generated initrd which would fail to > boot. > > But supposedly you tried to set up open-iscsi in the Debian > installer. > Does that work, or maybe Debian's d-i does not even offer to set up > open-iscsi? Ubuntu's does, that might be the important difference > here. I think D-I currently does not have the support. There was a patch from Ubuntu, some years ago, for an open-iscsi udeb, which is already part of the packaging. But I never did see the relevant D-I part for the installer. So just thought of asking. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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