Re: Bug#688744: ext2 support for USB removable media in debian-installer

[Gasha <gasha@pie-dabas.net>]

There is another catch:

after firmware installation, usb flash remains as sda1, forcing system 
disk to become sdb.
and that prevents GRUB2 from installation onto correct drive.

booting into recovery mode, and doing grub-install /dev/sdb fixed that.

Maybe it is good idea to remove flash, after firmware install?
And before partitioning.

I'll test that next time...

G

On 09/25/2012 04:00 PM, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Tue 25 Sep 2012 at 13:44:48 +0300, Gasha wrote:
>
>    
> > During installation missing firmware bnx2 was reported. Installer was
> > unable to copy firmware from EXT2 formatted USB flash.  Also, dialog
> > screen does not mention supported filesystems.
> >      
> Section 6.4. of the Installation Guide points out that a FAT-formatted
> USB stick is required. My experience is that the ext2/3/4 module is not
> available at that stage of the install but the vfat module is.
>
>    
> > I do not use windows (almost), and because of that fact do not have
> > any FAT16 formatted USB flash. Only ext2.  USB flash drives larger
> > than 2 Gb are common. And formatting USB flash as ext2 allows to carry
> > DVD image files larger than 4 gb.
> >
> > Mentioning FAT16 or FAT32 in dialog screen should be easy. Ext2
> > support could be nice also.
> >      
> You can use your ext2 formatted flash drive but you have to be sneaky.
> Before detecting the network hardware do "Detect disks", followed by
>
>     modprobe ext2
>
> and
>
>     mount -text2 /dev/sdXn /media
>
> Then back to "Detect network hardware".
>
>
>