Debian-installer questions

[Valery Febvre <vfebvre@easter-eggs.com>]

I have tested debian-installer last 5 days and I have severals
questions:

1) Why do I need to put modutils-basic_2.4.1-2_i386.udeb in
build/localudebs/
( http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/debian-installer )
modutils-basic.udeb is in directory udebs/ (downloaded during make)


2) Even if debian-installer downloads libraries (.udeb) at the begining
of the compilation, it doesn't use them and uses system's librairies
instead (with mklibs.sh)! Why?
I had to install libdetect and pics librairies (only found linc6-pic and
libslang-pic) on my system.

3) Line 235 in Makefile:
	I have modified the line:
	rm $(TREE)/lib/$$lib.*; \

	by
	if [ -e $(TREE)/lib/$$lib.* ]; then \
		rm $(TREE)/lib/$$lib.*; \
	fi \
because after mklibs I receive this error message:
rm: cannot remove `./tmp/tree/lib/libdebconf.*': No such file or
directory


4) You refere to UPX in Makefile but if I uncomment UPX and set the
path, it doesn't work.
Anyway, UPX isn't used in Makefile.


5) Ok, except these problems, when I use the floppy:
	- network card detection OK
	- manual network configuration OK
	- DHCP doesn't work
	Here is the error message:
		dhclient eth0
		installer[59]:expr:not found
		installer[59]:expr:not found
		installer[59]:expr:not found
		installer[59]:[:2:unexpected operator
		installer[59]:[:2:unexpected operator
		modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-17
		installer[59]:socket: Address family not supported by protocol
		installer[59]: Make sure to set CONFIG_PACKET=y and CONFIG_FILTER=y in
your kernel configuration!
		installer[59]: exiting		
	- Finishing setting up the debian installer doesn't work
	wget fails.
	Here is the error message:
		zcat:
		Usage: zcat FILE
		ar: not found
		corrupted status flag!!!
		...
	I have recompiled busybox to active ar applet but I still have zcat and
corrupted status flags errors.

Thanx in advance.
Valery
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