Bug#863651: debian-installer: no bcache support
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20170615+deb9u4
Followup-For: Bug #863651
Dear Maintainer,
Just ran into the same problem with the actual debian 9 netinst iso installer.
Partitioned disks and wanted to create a bcache device - there is no way to do this out of the installer. So you have to take the hard way to first install normally and then use a live CD to backup, re-partition and then restore.
Nowasays SSD are common and using bcache is a nice way to speed up the spindle disks of the system.
At least put make-bcache onto the installer image so you can create that filesystem manually from the installer console.
-Benoît-
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_CH:de (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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