On 5/20/23 20:17, Tomasz Wolak wrote:
On 5/20/23 19:49, Tomasz Wolak wrote:On 5/20/23 19:17, Stefan Monnier wrote:I will not go to further details here, anyone interested can go to: https://t-w.github.io/debian/2022/03/09/diskless_debian_11_pxe_nbd/ for details.Have you reported a bug about this? You might also get in touch with the maintainer of `nbd-client-udeb` since that package seems designed for your use case, so if it doesn't work well enough, they might like to know.[...]But contacting the maintainer of the nbd-client seems to be a good idea. I will do that. Thanks.
So I have contacted the maintainer of nbd-client and have a little follow up:
1. apparently, the Debian installer can be used with the option "modules=partman-nbd" (documented in /usr/share/doc/nbd-client/README.Debian.gz), which should allow partitioning and installation on an nbd
2. for the nbd-client binary used in initrd images - I have submitted a bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1036539