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Installation on NBD in the newly released

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Hello everyone,

Does anyone know if the new release of Debian will contain/allow 
installation on an NBD (network block device)?

Some time ago, I was installing Debian 11 (bullseye) for some diskless 
machine. And, while finally I succeeded, I had a few unnecessary 
obstacles which made that process more time-consuming and difficult than 
it should be.

Debian installer, despite the fact that it contains nbd kernel modules, 
was lacking the nbd-client, an application that would allow to actually 
set the remote-attached device up and available for installation. And 
the nbd-client had to be dug _manually_ from a udeb package (the one 
from regular Debian does not work as installer environment does not have 
some libraries) and, of course, transferred _manually_ through network 
to the installation system.

Besides that, target system's initrd was missing things allowing to 
mount an nbd as the root device. Though not that difficult, I had to 
prepare that myself (again, time spent on things that could just be there).

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.

My question is - does anyone know if these things will be fixed in the 
new upcoming release (bookworm)? And if not - where should I ask and 
provide info to eventually push for making these minor but, IMHO, very 
useful changes?

(I do not want to pollute dev. mailing lists unnecessarily, if this 
should go there, please let me know where exactly. For me, 
debian-boot@lists.debian.org seems to be the right place for this issue).

(Thanks in advance).

Regards,
Tomasz

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Installation on NBD in the newly released Tomasz Wolak <tomas.wolak@gmail.com> - 2023-05-20 19:10 +0200
  Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-05-20 19:20 +0200
    Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released Tomasz Wolak <tomas.wolak@gmail.com> - 2023-05-20 19:50 +0200
      Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released Tomasz Wolak <tomas.wolak@gmail.com> - 2023-05-20 20:20 +0200
        Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released Alex King <alex@king.net.nz> - 2023-05-21 00:30 +0200
        Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released Tomasz Wolak <tomas.wolak@gmail.com> - 2023-05-22 09:30 +0200
      Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-05-21 01:20 +0200
  Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-05-20 22:20 +0200
    Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released Tomasz Wolak <tomas.wolak@gmail.com> - 2023-05-21 16:00 +0200
      Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> - 2023-05-21 22:50 +0200

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