Re: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:19:33 +0100
Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de> wrote:
> In article <87bptnccj6.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> you wrote:
> > What needs to be done so that these two issues can be fixed?
> >
> > | Disk devices may change on reboot
>
> A good option would be to use LABEL or UID instead.
I believe this still doesn't solve the problem in the case of lilo.conf
or grub's device.map, when specifying e.g. where to write the MBR. Is
there any way around that?
> However I am not sure if that has some drawbacks as well:
>
> - for uuid the system is less forgiving if you swap disks
> - for label the system is less forgiving if you bring in temp. new
> disks
Label names could be generated to minimize collisions. Something like
${hostname}-/ instead of /, or maybe something even more specific.
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Andrew Deason
adeason2@uiuc.edu
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