Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:29:41PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Monday 17 January 2005 20:34, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> > so unless Debian wants to stay with stoneage kernels you're better of
> > starting to fix D-I. That beeing said D-I people have been told
> > repeatedly that basing an installer on devfs is a bad idea long time
> > ago, but let's not warm that up again.
>
> Fortunately changing from devfs to udev is not particularly difficult.
Indeed.
> I suggest just grabbing code from Fedora, these things work pretty
> well in Fedora.
IME porting changes to the installer's guts from one installer to a
totally different installer is not a particularly productive approach.
It was easier to do it from scratch.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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