Re: Launching a Debian Xen Guest using a nfs://.../preseed.cfg fails -- Does required nfs:// support exist?
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> AFAIK we don't have NFS support in any D-I images currently. Yours is the
> first request in a long time for NFS support. There does not seem to be
> much demand for it. It's a question of cost (memory usage/initrd size)
> versus the additional functionality. So far it hasn't seemed to be worth
> the cost.
Well, I don't buy that argument in the least. There's sufficient
demand in all the other distros (I forgot above to mention the *BSD's
... and even, apparently, Ubuntu's kickstart!
[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KickstartCompatibility]) for the
implementation & ongoing support of NFS access to scripts -- not like
NFS is an obscure file-service protocol or functionality in any case.
And, it seems some fairly thoughtful Debian-preseed users (e.g.,
http://pthree.org/2008/05/20/automating-debianubuntu-installs-with-preseed/)
seem to believe that one "... can make this preseed file accessible
via HTTP, FTP, NFS, locally on a hard drive or partition ...". Seems
to me that there's more than sufficient interest, and rationales, even
in the Debian community, no?
But, as you're apparently a Debian developer, and we're not, it seems
I'm 'being told' ?
If that's the case, then we'll have to live without Debian Guest deployments.
Thanks, though!
BenDJ
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