Re: systemd woes continue
On 7/17/19 3:16 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>>>> debian-installer doesn't use fdisk (anymore), it uses partman. Did you try any of
>>>> the recent installation images, see [1]. Please note these images are currently
>>>> shipped without proprietary firmware.
>>>
>>> Yeah, that's a problem for any Alpha with a Qlogic SCSI controller.
>
> If you want to use e100 (e.g. DE602) and tg3 (e.g. DEGXA) driven NICs
> during installation, these should be added here, too.
What do you mean by adding them? The drivers? Or the firmware? If the
firmware is not packaged, someone needs to add them to one of the
firmware packages.
> To sum things up: what Adrian intends to do for Alpha - pre-include the
> firmware on the installer discs - seems to be the only way to get this
> problem fixed w/o manual intervention during installation.
It's also the standard way how it's done. debian-cd (the software used to
build the CD images) supports adding firmware packages. But the problem
is that firmware packages are usually part of the non-free suite which is
not available in Debian Ports but on the main Debian repositories only.
However, the main repositories and the Debian Ports repositories are
separate mirrors and currently, debian-cd does not support more than
one mirror during CD image build.
So, while I can enable to include firmware during image build, debian-cd
is unable to find the firmware packages as they are not part of the Debian
Ports mirror
I hope that clarifies the problem.
>> It's on my TODO list. It's just not trivial since I need to modify debian-cd
>> to be able to merge the contrib and non-free repositories from the main
>> FTP servers during CD image build.
>
> JH Chatenet once created a debootstrap "addon" (see [1] for details)
> that merges "unstable" and "unreleased" suites, maybe functionality from
> that addon can be reused here?
That just merges two suites but not two mirrors.
Adrian
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