Status for reiser support in d-i (was: reiser support in debian-installer)
* Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> (1) a reiserfs kernel module, in its own udeb. Submit a patch to
> Herbert Xu to do this; its straightforward, as the module udebs are
> just repackaged from the current kernel ; examples in the package.
I mailed Herbert and asked him to do this.
> (2) A reiserfsprogs udeb, (built from the reiserfsprogs package, I
> presume) that provides /sbin/mkfs.reiserfs. (I know that the
> reiserfs version is actually called mkreiserfs, but the name is
> important) This shoulde then depend on (1).
Udebs are ready have been and uploaded by Ed Boraas. The dependency is
still missing, I have to add it once I know the kernel module udeb
name. As soon this is uploaded, d-i should be able to format with
ReiserFS.
Regards,
Sebastian
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