Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Well, I did not write it, just trying to get it working. It shares a > lot of code and structure with cdrom-detect. If someone wants to > redesign disk-detect, they should also look at cdrom-detect. Yes it has the same problems. > > A driver floppy is a ext2 floppy with one file modules.tgz. The > > content of modules.tgz is unpackaged in the installation system > > root directory. > > Is it the fact that disk-detect loads modules from floppies, or the > fact that it lists how the floppy should look like that bothers you? The fact that it doesn't use udebs is the killer. What if someone wants to replace d-i's kernel with a custom kernel? They cannot just rebuild the package with a new config file and put the udebs up on their mirror, they now have to work out before the fact the format of these tarballs, and put them on floppies. -- see shy jo
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