Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello Debian-installer team, > > After testing beta 1 and beta 2, I tried beta 3, with the > same goal in mind: install Debian in a file using a loop > device. > > As far as I could see, all beta detected the hardware of > the box fine. > > beta 1 and 2 lacked the minimal support to create loop device, > but the situation has improved : now there is a 'dd' utility and 'mount' > support '-oloop' provide we issue modprobe loop before calling mount > (which I found a bit confusing, it would be better if the module was > autoloaded, but never mind). There is no 'losetup' but it is probably not > neccessary. Sounds like you have all the pieces you need to write a partman-loop module that adds loopback support directly to partman. > Now, the problem is that I can't find any way to skip the 'partman' > step of d-i. b-f conveniently detected that /target existed and > allow to go to 'install base system' directly. Just mount /target, edit /var/lib/dpkg/status to mark partman as already configured, and skip over it in the menu. > The 'expert mode' modules selection suffers from a usability problem: > usually it is easier to select the module we need that the modules we do > not need. AFAIK it only has this problem with hardware that discover cannot probe. -- see shy jo
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