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Bug#688744: ext2 support for USB removable media in debian-installer



reassign 688744 mountmedia
thanks

Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont102@gmail.com):

> You can use your ext2 formatted flash drive but you have to be sneaky.
> Before detecting the network hardware do "Detect disks", followed by
> 
>    modprobe ext2
> 
> and
> 
>    mount -text2 /dev/sdXn /media
> 
> Then back to "Detect network hardware".
> 

Indeed, mountmedia could easily try to mount an ext2|ext3|ext4 device:

if ! ( media_mounted && checkcontents $MNT ); then
        # Special case for an already mounted /hd-media.
        if [ -d /hd-media ] && checkcontents /hd-media; then
                mount --bind /hd-media /media
                exit 0
        fi

        if ! grep -q ^vfat /proc/modules ; then
                log-output -t mountmedia modprobe -q vfat || true
        fi


the "modprobe ext2" command could be attempted there. Of course, that
needs to be sure the ext2 module is already available. It seens this
is what you "detect disk" trick is about, am I right?


Anyway, reassigning to the mountmedia package, which this bug pertains
to, I think.



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