[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Partial success in getting ZoL support for D-I

[Turbo Fredriksson]

I've FINALY gotten my custom d-i iso image to show me ZFS
support!

I'm currently trying out if I can actually create a pool,
fs and install on it!

And if that works (and so far it looks good), I need to make
sure that grub can boot it (already have my own build of ZoL
grub).


Partial because I'm not sure I can reproduce it! :). I've
had to seriously hack d-i for it to build an image with
my kernel of choose (3.9.0-rc6+tf.1) and a local mirror.

https://github.com/FransUrbo/debian-installer/commits/turbo

As said, in addition to this I've had to seriously hack
build/Makefile, build/util/get-packages to get it to build.

Something that isn't a ugly hack is:

  * build/config/amd64.cf
    Configure kernel version and flavor:
	KERNELVERSION = 3.9.0-rc6+tf.1
	KERNELMAJOR = 3.9
	KERNEL_FLAVOUR = amd64-di

  * build/config/local
    Local overrides for build:
	MKLIBS = mklibs
	USE_UDEBS_FROM = squeeze
	UDEB_COMPONENTS = local/debian-installer
	DPKG_UNPACK_OPTIONS = --force-overwrite
	EXTRAUDEBS = cdebconf-newt-entropy cdebconf-text-entropy
	PRESEED = config/local.preseed

  * build/config/local.preseed
    Local install options to simplify auto installs

  * build/sources.list.udeb.local
	deb http://celia.bayour.com/debian squeeze local main/debian-installer local/debian-installer

And, no. Celia isn't available from the outside my network :)

I had to create a 'linux-kernel-di-amd64-3.9.0-rc6+tf.1' package
from 'linux-kernel-di-amd64-2.6' (1.76+squeeze9) so that I could
get all the kernel module udebs from my current kernel.

What else... Can't remember any more. It's taken me three days
(almost 17-18 hours/day :) to get here. Hence 'Partial' :)
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