On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:25:12PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Debian uses PGI as it's installer for the Debian 4.2 release. A
> bug is found in the partitioning tool the day after release that
> corrupts some people's machines. Is it possible for Debian to
> just rebuild parted, put that on the mirrors, and have almost
> everyone get access to it even if they're installing from CDs?
> If so, how does this work?
You run pgi-build --no-post-clean, put misc/live at the NFS export
location, and tell your users to use it.
E.g., at the syslinux prompt:
install nfs=my.nifty.host:/export/live
The _Using the PGI Debian Installer_ manual says:
nfslive=host:path
nfslive instructs the installer to mount its live filesystem using
the NFS network protocol. The live filesystem includes the actual
programs to perform the system installation, as opposed to the code
which boots the kernel, performs hardware detection, and configures the
network, which is always contained on the installation medium. For this
option to work, an NFS server must be running at host, reachable via the
network, and be configured to export a live filesystem at path
corresponding to your installer medium. Vendors that plan to support
this option should prominently document the correct values for host and
path.
[Note]
If the live filesystem cannot be mounted via NFS, the installer will
fall back to searching for one on the installation medium.
http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/usermanual/
The only things you are "locked into" are the kernel and the initrd
contents (though even the latter can be overriden for most purposes).
Supporting PXEboot is something a couple of us at Progeny are pretty
interested in.
> It doesn't much matter if PGI doesn't already do this; there's no real
> reason why it couldn't be udeb'ed, but some of the things you've said
> seem to indicate that it might already manage this, or something like it.
Well, not everything you might need to have on the live filesystem
(e.g., XFree86, GTK+, Glade) may be udeb'ed.
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