Hi Samuel, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> (2021-02-16): > I was reinstalling a laptop after a NVME change, and I realized: what > if the NVME did not have any namespace set up? The installer would then > not recognize the disk. We would need at least the nvme command to be > available on the text console to fix this by hand (Ideally the installer > would even automatically propose to configure an NVME namespace). > > Perhaps the addition of nvme-cli-udeb would be possible for bullseye > already? I could verify that the binary of the nvme-cli package does > work already, so it'd be a mere matter of adding the nvme-cli-udeb > package that just ships the /usr/sbin/nvme file. I have absolutely no idea what NVME namespaces are and what they are needed for; would you have some pointers? (My only experience was a fresh install on an NVMe device replacing an aging SSD, and I haven't had to do anything specific.) Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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