Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released

2023-05-22 Thread Tomasz Wolak
On 5/20/23 20:17, Tomasz Wolak wrote: On 5/20/23 19:49, Tomasz Wolak wrote: On 5/20/23 19:17, Stefan Monnier wrote: I will not go to further details here, anyone interested can go to: https://t-w.github.io/debian/2022/03/09/diskless_debian_11_pxe_nbd/ for details. Have you reported a

Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released

2023-05-21 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 03:57:40PM +0200, Tomasz Wolak wrote: > On 5/20/23 22:09, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sat, 20 May 2023 18:45:13 +0200 Tomasz Wolak wrote: > > > > > Debian installer, despite the fact that it contains nbd kernel > > > modules, was lacking the nbd-client, an application

Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released

2023-05-21 Thread Tomasz Wolak
On 5/20/23 22:09, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 20 May 2023 18:45:13 +0200 Tomasz Wolak wrote: Debian installer, despite the fact that it contains nbd kernel modules, was lacking the nbd-client, an application that would allow to actually set the remote-attached device up and available for

Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released

2023-05-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Well, it is not a problem with nbd-client-udeb, it is a problem with the > lack of it in Debian installer. According to my reading of `nbd-client-udeb`, the whole purpose of that package is to use it with Debian's installer. So even if it's not supported in the default Debian installer,

Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released

2023-05-20 Thread Alex King
A wishlist bug report against the debian installer pseudo package would seem to be an appropriate way to go. I would also like to see nbd support in the installer.  I'm guessing it will be too late for bookworm, I tried that using the nightly installer and had a similar problem - nbd kernel

Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released

2023-05-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 20 May 2023 18:45:13 +0200 Tomasz Wolak wrote: > Debian installer, despite the fact that it contains nbd kernel > modules, was lacking the nbd-client, an application that would allow > to actually set the remote-attached device up and available for > installation. And the nbd-client had

Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released

2023-05-20 Thread Tomasz Wolak
On 5/20/23 19:49, Tomasz Wolak wrote: On 5/20/23 19:17, Stefan Monnier wrote: I will not go to further details here, anyone interested can go to: https://t-w.github.io/debian/2022/03/09/diskless_debian_11_pxe_nbd/ for details. Have you reported a bug about this? You might also get in

Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released

2023-05-20 Thread Tomasz Wolak
On 5/20/23 19:17, Stefan Monnier wrote: I will not go to further details here, anyone interested can go to: https://t-w.github.io/debian/2022/03/09/diskless_debian_11_pxe_nbd/ for details. Have you reported a bug about this? You might also get in touch with the maintainer of

Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released

2023-05-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I will not go to further details here, anyone interested can go to: > https://t-w.github.io/debian/2022/03/09/diskless_debian_11_pxe_nbd/ > for details. Have you reported a bug about this? You might also get in touch with the maintainer of `nbd-client-udeb` since that package seems designed

Installation on NBD in the newly released

2023-05-20 Thread Tomasz Wolak
Hello everyone, Does anyone know if the new release of Debian will contain/allow installation on an NBD (network block device)? Some time ago, I was installing Debian 11 (bullseye) for some diskless machine. And, while finally I succeeded, I had a few unnecessary obstacles which made that