Development on XFS-enabled d-i images continues apace. First, there was a fatal error in the kernel-image packages created initially. Compiling ext2 support as a module works fine for normal booting, but d-i (with its ext2 initrd images) minds slightly. A fixed package is on its way to incoming; you can also grab it from <http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/xfs/>. Second, the packages there (source and binary) should now be apt-gettable: deb http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/xfs/ sarge local deb-src http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/xfs/ sarge local Right now, the only udeb there is the xfsprogs-udeb package, but very shortly, the linux-kernel-di xfs udebs will also be uploaded, and will also be apt-gettable for debian-installer's purposes. I'll be re-generating/re-uploading the d-i images, and netinst images will also be following shortly once they've been verified to at least boot correctly (unlike my last attempt ;). Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:46:48PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 10:12:43PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > As I do appear to be making some progress on getting an XFS-enabled d-i > > image together, I thought I would give everyone a status update. The > > 2.4.22-based kernel-image packages are now sitting in the NEW queue; > > although no real support for these can reasonably be committed to d-i > > CVS until they've entered the archive, I've also posted the packages to > > <http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/xfs/> so that people can begin > > working with them locally in the meantime. I expect to also have > > unofficial linux-kernel-di udebs together in the next couple of days, > > which I'll also make available there. > > That takes care of the kernel. The other key ingredient, of course, is > > d-i support for initializing new xfs-formatted partitions. If I'm > > reading the source to partconf right, all that's required for this is an > > xfsprogs udeb that provides the mkfs.xfs tool. I found some time over > > the holiday to put together a patch for xfsprogs to provide precisely > > that, which I will be submitting to the BTS tomorrow. A few more days > > should give me enough time to get initial XFS-enabled d-i images > > together for i386, at which point testing will be most appreciated. > Status update after two days: > The patch to xfsprogs to add support for udeb creation is now in the BTS > (bug #225444). > Most of the code to generate xfs kernel udebs and xfs d-i images for > i386 has been committed to d-i CVS. The remaining bits that have not > been committed are attached to this email; they can't be added until xfs > kernel packages are available in the archive, since this would otherwise > break d-i builds. > Unofficial xfs kernel udebs, based on the pending kernel-image debs, > have also been uploaded to <http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/xfs/>. > A d-i CD-ready (in theory!) image is also now available > as <http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/xfs/cdrom-xfs-image.img> (the > bare initrd accompanies it at > <http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/xfs/cdrom-xfs-initrd.gz>). > I'm going to start looking at what it will take to build a debian-cd > image now to pull this all together.
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