Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19
John, I only provided a temporary workaround (a hack, that ugly, but
will work) in case somebody really wants to try it quickly. In no way
it was supposed to be 'official' or 'correct'. Obviously compiling it
into installer kernel or udeb is the only option forward, and this is
what I said in 'or fix the iso build scripts to include it too.'. By
'include', I meant, installer kernel compiled to include it in
initrd.gz, not copy it from other package or other hack.
Also, thanks for the new ISO images and your work on this!
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 18:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> On 4/21/20 7:59 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >
> > Yes, I know. I am just saying where one can get compatible module in
> > case somebody wants to get the floppy.ko manually and use it. I did
> > say it is not in the initrd or in the udeb, so obviously it is not
> > working now. We all know that.
>
> You talked about unpacking and repacking the kernel package and also modifying
> the ISO build scripts to include the floppy module which what I was answering
> to.
>
> There is one official way of getting a module into debian-installer and those
> are udebs, whether you are creating a netboot image or an installation CD
> does not make a difference as both the netboot and the CD images for debian-installer
> just differ in their initrds. The former has more network drivers udebs included
> in the initrd while the CD installer initrd has more storage driver udebs
> included.
>
> Adrian
>
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