On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 09:43:11AM +0800, 张文杰 wrote:
> I want to support the Debian installation to MTD flash. here is my
> original idea.
Great. You should also get in touch with Per Andersson [1] who was also
interest to improve the support of Debian on NAS.
[1] He recently introduced himself, see:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/03/msg01178.html
> Because the MTD flash does not have traditional partition like disks,
> so we do not do the partitioning, just detect the MTD, mount it to
> /target, and then do installation.
That would work, but we'll loose a lot of partman's flexibility. I can
imagine quite a few use cases that would not be supported that way:
* encrypted filesystem on MTD,
* root on MTD and /home on disk (you might want such setup for the
Kurobox Pro which has only 256 Mb of flash),
* /boot on MTD, the rest on hard drive.
I think that even if there is no need to "partition" an MTD device,
proper integration into the debian-installer would be to allow the
static partitions to be configured, reformated, transferred like any
others.
Cheers,
--
Jérémy Bobbio .''`.
lunar@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism
`. `'`
`-
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature