Bug#238653: debian-installer network config & evms
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:31:48PM +0000, Stefan Tibus wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:17:38 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:05:43AM +0100, Stefan Tibus wrote:
> >> - The evms-udeb links /lib/libevms-2.3.so.0 to libevms.so instead
> >> of libevms-2.3.so.0.0. Furthermore libncurses(5?) is missing
> >> and the "EVMS module for debian-installer" does not work at all.
> >> Fixing the two library issues makes evmsn run (though it does not
> >> really work, due to lacking kernel support), the d-i module
> >> remains broken.
>
> >I haven't had time to finish this udeb; if there is some way to hide it by
> >default without removing it entirely, I would like to do that.
>
> >Is the d-i kernel really lacking device-mapper? That has been a standard
> >part of Debian kernel-source since 2.4.23, and is needed for lvm2 as well
> >(which I believe has a working udeb).
>
> Well, the kernel has the device-mapper, but EVMS requires additional
> patches: (from the installation instructions)
> "In addition to the base MD and Device-Mapper support, EVMS requires a few
> additional patches for certain EVMS features to work correctly with these
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
They are only required if you use bad block relocation, multipath, or
snapshots. These are all things that one can live without for installation
purposes.
> ...and after all, it didn't work (didn't find any disc).
That's unrelated to the kernel situation, then. All discovery is done in
userspace. It's entirely likely that the udeb has further brokenness; I
haven't touched it in a long time.
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- mdz
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