including iscsi-installscripts into desktop edition?

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Oliver Rath <rath at mglug.de> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I hope Im right here. Does it make sense for you to include the
> possibilities of installing ubuntu directly on iscsi disks? Imho it is
> "only"  the inclusion of open-iscsi package (with the then needed
> kernel-modules). It seems an increasement of ~250kb.
>
> Is this interesting for ubuntu?
>
>
Hi,

Personally, I have nothing against it, but it seems like a fairly uncommon
use case (people don't usually install *desktops* on iscsi disks directly).
You can still install a desktop over iscsi of course -- we have another
installation medium for expert installs (the netboot mini.iso[1]) which can
be used and will allow you to install things just the way you like,
including picking the Ubuntu desktop (or any other flavor for that matter),
and does handle iSCSI correctly.

The jist of it is; we don't have code in ubiquity to handle iSCSI, it may
just work fine but I don't know. If you would like to see it included in
the desktop (graphical) installer; I think the best and most helpful way to
get this ready would be to try to make your own build of ubiquity in a PPA;
including partman-iscsi and open-iscsi in the build or on the image, and
seeing how ubiquity react. I'm fairly certain some prompts will require
extra work to be handled correctly; but I don't think I can spend the time
to make this work for 16.04.


[1] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/xenial/


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