On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 14:55 -0700, Patrick Mansfield wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 05:22:34PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > While it might be useful eventually, I don't think it's something to > > really be concerned with for now. There are plenty of perfectly > > reasonable ways to get access to installation trees now and I'm not sure > > that I really want to add support for more given the impact on testing > > that it causes :) > > It is not a new installation method, it is similar to adding a new HBA > driver / module. I hope you don't have to test installation via all the > existing SCSI HBA drivers in the initrd, you would go insane. :) The fact that iSCSI uses the SCSI layer is purely an implementation detail, IMHO... the fact that it requires a lot of configuration about the target makes it much more like a network install type and FTP vs HTTP vs NFS are different installation methods > I personally prefer a network install over CD. > > But if all you have is iSCSI (no nfs/ftp/http server) how are you going to > install? That is not an unreasonable setup, especially if you have an > iSCSI attached CDROM. I don't think that people in the real world have no nfs/ftp/http server. :) Jeremy
