On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Oliver Rath <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I hope Im right here. Does it make sense for you to include the > possibilities of installing ubuntu directly on iscsi disks? Imho it is > "only" the inclusion of open-iscsi package (with the then needed > kernel-modules). It seems an increasement of ~250kb. > > Is this interesting for ubuntu? > > Hi,
Personally, I have nothing against it, but it seems like a fairly uncommon use case (people don't usually install *desktops* on iscsi disks directly). You can still install a desktop over iscsi of course -- we have another installation medium for expert installs (the netboot mini.iso[1]) which can be used and will allow you to install things just the way you like, including picking the Ubuntu desktop (or any other flavor for that matter), and does handle iSCSI correctly. The jist of it is; we don't have code in ubiquity to handle iSCSI, it may just work fine but I don't know. If you would like to see it included in the desktop (graphical) installer; I think the best and most helpful way to get this ready would be to try to make your own build of ubiquity in a PPA; including partman-iscsi and open-iscsi in the build or on the image, and seeing how ubiquity react. I'm fairly certain some prompts will require extra work to be handled correctly; but I don't think I can spend the time to make this work for 16.04. [1] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/xenial/ Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <[email protected]> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: [email protected] 4096R/65B58DA1 818A D123 0992 275B 23C2 CF89 C67B B4D6 65B5 8DA1
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