Bug#637784: Please support installing on partitionless drives.
> Message-Id: <201307171139.02755.holger@layer-acht.org>
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> reassign 693107 partman-auto
> reassign 670702 partman-auto
> reassign 615074 lvm2
> reassign 676172 partman
> severity 691046 wishlist
> retitle 644430 document the need for a bios boot partition when using GPT
> forcemerge 644430 691046
> reassign 691046 release-notes
> reassign 683747 partman-lvm
> reassign 671879 partman-base
> thanks
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> Hi,
>
> thank you for submitting installation reports, much appreciated.
>
> I read through all the ("partman" related) bugs mentioned here and am closing
> them now as
> - they (finally) indicated success and/or
> - I know from first hand experience that the functionality is working in
> Wheezy and/or
> - they only contained very little information and/or
> - they were (very) old.
>
> If I've closed a bug incorrectly please do reply or just file a new one -
> thats often better, as the bug log will be more clear.
reopen 637784
reassign 637784 partman
severity 637784 wishlist
retitle 637784 Please support installing on partitionless drives.
Dear Holger and everybody,
I think that it would be great if somebody could extend debian-installer to
install Debian on partitionless drives (like /dev/xvdb instead of /dev/xvdb1).
This would open the possibility to use debian-installer for preparing some
preseeded cloud images in a very simple way. Currently, this is done with
ad-hoc tools developed from scratch. Using debian-installer would also
ease the convergence between cloud images and standard installations, which
is wanted (see <http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/OfficialImages>).
(and please forgive me if partman is not the best package to hold this bug report)
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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