Re: Debian installer and non-official drivers
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 04:38:05AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
> > Just one question. Lets say I'd put some extra driver modules for hardware
> > not officially supported by the debian installer on a floppy disk (in form of
> > an a .udeb) and let the installer load this file during the installation in
> > order to detect the additional hardware.
> >
> > Would this udeb get installed into my target system later on? If this
> > additional driver is needed for i.e. disk access, it should be placed in
> > the initrd when the target kernel gets installed.
>
> It would not. You can however include a udeb on your floppy that
> installs a prebaseconfig hook script which would run after the base
> system is installed, or a base-installer hook script which would run
> just before base is installed (or perhaps both), and at that point do
> one of these things, in approximate order of difficulty and inverse
> order of cleanliness and desirability:
>
> a. copy the module into /target from the d-i system
> b. install a .deb of the module into /target from the floppy
> c. add something to sources.list for the apt repository you should have
> that contains the .deb, and then use apt-install to get it installed
We probably want to make sure that this is pretty clearly documented for
vendors who may wish to provide their own third party drivers. It may be
wishful thinking on my behalf, but it'd be nice if we can be incorporating
as possible, so vendors aren't throwing up their hands (any more than they
already are) when it comes to having Debian as a platform they're
prepared to support...
regards
Andrew
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