Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19
On 4/21/20 7:53 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote:
> floppy.ko for alpha is in the kernel image deb file,
>
> debian-10.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso/iso9660://pool-alpha/main/l/linux/linux-image-5.5.0-1-alpha-smp_5.5.13-2_alpha.deb/deb://CONTENTS/lib/modules/5.5.0-1-alpha-smp/kernel/drivers/block
>
> but it is not present in any udeb file, or in the
> debian-10.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso/iso9660://boot/initrd.gz/gunzip://ucpio://lib/modules/5.5.0-1-alpha-generic/kernel/drivers/block
>
> It should be relatively easy to put it there manually (unpack,
> repack), or fix the iso build scripts to include it too.
debian-installer does not use a kernel package, it boots the bare kernel image
and loads additional modules either from the initial ramdisk or module udebs
such as "ata-modules-5.5.0-2-alpha".
Compiling the module into the kernel is surely the easiest approach.
Adrian
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