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Floppy installation custom kernel support



Hello list,

Installing sarge from the 20041118 net install floppies I noticed it seemed impossible to choose a custom build kernel in theb stage mentioned in 6.3.3.1 of http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/ch06s03.html.en
It says:

As part of the installation, a Linux kernel will be installed. At the default priority, the installer will choose one for you that best matches your hardware. In lower priority modes, you will be able to choose from a list of available kernels.

I had ofcourse chosen an expert install, since I'm having a little vakation and wanted to spend my time on this installation. But I couldn't find a way (not even by opening a rescue terminal and editting the target/etc/apt/sources.list to contain the source of my home-grown-kernel.deb...

I think this can't be right and the function of 'officially' editting the sources.list should be inserted _before_ the picking of a boot-kernel. It would have saved me some work since the default kernel has a lot of dependencies and configurations my kernel has not, or even conflicts with (such as a /etc/lilo.conf telling the system to use an initial RAM disk).

Is there a way I can put this missing function on a wishlist? I would like to see it included in the final version of the sarge net-install floppies...

Kind regards,
Jouke

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