Call for testers: setup_harddisks_2

[Michael Tautschnig]

Hi all,

Finally setup_harddisks_2 is ready for testers. There are some TODOs left and
probably a lot more will arise as soon as people start testing it. Before you
start, just let me clarify that this is a very dangerous piece of software that
has not been sufficiently tested for any cases where you want to retain any of
your data. It will definitely destroy any data on any of your disks in your
system. You have been warned.

If you're still interested, the following steps are required next:

- install libparse-recdescent-perl, parted, lvm2 within your NFSROOT

- grab setup_harddisks_2 from the SVN:
  http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/fai/people/michael/features/setup_harddisks_2/implementation/
  (get all the shdd2* files)

- For a first shot copy the files somewhere into your NFSROOT

- create a disk_config for <CLASS> from the old one apart from (at least) the following
  changes:
  * the filesystem is now given as the 4th column, the mount options are now in
    column 5
  * there is no ;-hack anymore -- anything given after the mount options is
    passed on to mkfs.<filesystem>
  * Partitions are marked as bootable using the bootable:<nr> option in the
    disk_config line
  * The other things should at least work like they did before, but there are
    some new things as well, like RAID support (which is surely incomplete), LVM
    support, mounting by label or UUID. Please take a look at the attached
    examples to get an idea of the new format.

- create a hook partition.<CLASS> as follows

  #!/bin/sh

  cd <somewhere>
  debug=1 ./shdd2
  # if you really brave, you can get things written to disk as well
  debug=1 ./shdd2 -X
  # skip the original parititioning
  skip partition

- Give it a go and hope... There will be lots of debug output; if it finishes
  with the printout of an fstab file that is to your liking, it should have
  succeeded.


Any feedback is highly appreciated!!!
Good luck,
Michael


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