Bug#724891: [debian-installer] debian-installer: Build firmware for the DNS-320/DNS-325
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-07-06 at 14:55 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> Dlink firmware does not work from rs232 console
>
> I'm afraid I still don't really understand what you mean.
>
> Are you using "rs232 console" to mean "with Debian already installed"?
>
> If so then is the purpose of this ext2 image to be able to relaunch the
> installer after Debian is already installed in order to reinstall
> Debian?
Yes exactly
>
> Is it not possible to do this by cat'ting the relevant files
> into /dev/mtdblock* as with other similar platforms?
Yes it might be possible but not from uboot.
> Anyway, I think reinstalling Debian is a rather secondary use case and I
> don't think we need to be supplying (or, more importantly, maintaining)
> such an image by default. Best just to document how to make a suitable
> USB key IMHO.
Ok I will carry a note.
> Ian.
>
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