Comment 9 for bug 435290

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:35:46AM -0000, sub.mesa wrote:
> The server daily build ISO indeed worked, it did prompt me for iSCSI and
> install was a breeze, though setting up the network boot and mount root
> part is not. Some more documentation on this would be nice, especially
> now that Ubuntu has more or less "out of the box" support for iSCSI.

Perhaps you could file a separate bug on partman-iscsi with specifics.
The intention for 9.10 is that this works out of the box ...

> For example, perhaps an initrd-iscsi.img file could be included on the
> cd. This is what people will need to make the mount root stuff
> working.

We don't in general have space for multiple initrds. It is necessary to
make one initrd serve all purposes. In the case of the initrd used after
installation, that's generated by initramfs-tools and we can do some
dynamic things there; I can't tell from your comment whether you're
talking about the installer initrd or the installed-system initrd.

> Also, is it intended that the desktop cd has no options to install to
> iSCSI targets, only the server cd? Or will this be resolved for the
> final release?

This is intentional for the time being, as we did the iSCSI work for
this release as a server feature and it's a decent chunk of work to make
this available in the desktop installer as well. Feel free to file a
wishlist bug against ubiquity describing your situation.