Re: systemd woes continue
On 7/17/19 15:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
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.
I just wanted to "add" these NICs to the list of hardware that needs
firmware to work correctly on Alpha, i.e. like:
```
Yeah, that's a problem for any Alpha with a Qlogic SCSI controller...
...and a e100 or tg3 driven NIC.
```
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.
Ok, could it work when using the CDN (deb.debian.org) as described on
[2]? Or does this just redirect to the actual ports mirror for ports
architectures?
[2]: https://www.ports.debian.org/mirrors
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.
Oh, I see, didn't anticipate that the non-free suite is on different
mirrors. But see above.
Cheers,
Frank
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