Re: Build squeeze debian-installer with 3.2 kernel from backports

[Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr>]

I thought squeeze has became LTS ?

Anyway I'm obliged to install squeeze because the software stack I will use has not been ported and tested on wheezy yet.

Regards.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 05:57:47PM +0200, Sylvain Rabot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to setup a PXE with netboot install of squeeze for some HP
> hardware that uses broadcom 10G cards.
>
> Those broadcom cards are only correctly detected with the 3.2 kernel from
> the backports (and with an additional non-free driver).
>
> In order to do a netboot install I need debian-install to use a 3.2 kernel
> instead of the regular 2.6.32.
>
> I tried to adapt this
> https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/using-a-custom-kernel-with-cloud-servers/
> but had no chance so far because the following packages do not exist in
> squeeze-backports
>
> E: Unable to locate package acpi-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'acpi-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> E: Unable to locate package fat-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'fat-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> E: Unable to locate package fb-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'fb-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> E: Unable to locate package floppy-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> 'floppy-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> E: Unable to locate package input-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'input-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> E: Unable to locate package kernel-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'kernel-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> E: Unable to locate package nic-extra-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> 'nic-extra-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> E: Unable to locate package nic-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'nic-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> E: Unable to locate package nic-pcmcia-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> 'nic-pcmcia-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> E: Unable to locate package nic-usb-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> 'nic-usb-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> E: Unable to locate package nic-wireless-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> 'nic-wireless-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> E: Unable to locate package pcmcia-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> 'pcmcia-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> E: Unable to locate package usb-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'usb-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> E: Unable to locate package usb-storage-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> 'usb-storage-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> E: Unable to locate package virtio-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> 'virtio-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
>
> Complete log at http://pastebin.com/SQBAr0HU
>
> So I am wondering if it is possible to build the debian-installer with the
> 3.2 kernel.

Well wheezy (the current stable release) is already 3.2.  Why would you
be installing an obsolete version of Debian?

--
Len Sorensen

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Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr>