James Bromberger wrote: > Hi ppl. > I've been repeatedly testing floppy and CD images from > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso (the one dated Wed 8th Oct 2003) on an IBM BladeCentre system. This host is an x86 CPU, and has a CDROM and floppy drive shared between all hosts on a switchable USB bus. This probably needs the usb-storage module (and dependencies) available. In looking at archives, this looks like what Martin was talking about on Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:33:43 +1000 (Install report, laptop with USB CD-ROM). > > Can the CD have these USB modules in the kernel (as per Herbert's mail > (Tue, 9 Sep 2003 21:36:28 +1000, re bug #209229)? If the > usb-storage-udeb is on the disk, and not in the initrd on the CD, then > it can't be accessed... as seems to be the case now. I cant see the > usb-storage-udeb on the installer's root FS. 209229 has been closed, but > I still can't use my USB storage device to install from CD (I guess > FireWire devices are the same, based on the Wiki). We have plenty of space on the cdrom, so I have added usb storage support. If someone can tell me what modules will be needed for firewire support, I can make the udebs and we can include those too. We have 669k free on the CD initrd -- the usb storage support used 90k. -- see shy jo
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