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Bug#297553: marked as done (No support for custom kernels)

Your message dated Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:22:48 +0200
with message-id <20070815212248.GA8509@qamar>
and subject line Bug#297553: boot-floppy: No support for custom kernels
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Package: boot-floppy
Severity: wishlist

Installing sarge from the net-install floppies I noticed it
seemed impossible to choose a custom build kernel in the stage
mentioned in 6.3.3.1 of
http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/ch06s03.html.en
It says:

---
As part of the installation, a Linux kernel will be installed. At the 
default priority, the installer will choose one for you that best 
matches your hardware. In lower priority modes, you will be able to 
choose from a list of available kernels.
---

I had ofcourse chosen an expert install, since I'm doing this for 
fun. But I couldn't find a way (not even by opening a rescue terminal 
and editting the target/etc/apt/sources.list) to contain the source of 
my home-grown-kernel.deb...

I think this can't be right and the function of 'officially' editting
the sources.list should be inserted _before_ the picking of a
boot-kernel. It would have saved me some work since the default kernel
has a lot of dependencies and sets up some configurations which my 
kernel has not, or even conflicts with (such as a /etc/lilo.conf telling 
the system to use an initial RAM disk).

I'm also wondering what happend to the rescue command that used to be 
available on the Woody installation. Why is it removed?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers sarge
  APT policy: (500, 'sarge')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.19-a45
Locale: LANG=nl_NL@euro, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

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--- Begin Message --- 
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:42:13PM +0100, Jouke Witteveen wrote:
> I had ofcourse chosen an expert install, since I'm doing this for 
> fun. But I couldn't find a way (not even by opening a rescue terminal 
> and editting the target/etc/apt/sources.list) to contain the source of 
> my home-grown-kernel.deb...

To automatically install  a custom kernel, preseeding can be used to
select a local mirror and select the correct kernel package to install.
Please have a look at the relevant appendix of the debian-installer
manual for more informations.

Cheers,
-- 
Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
lunar@debian.org                    : :Ⓐ  :  # apt-get install anarchism
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