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Bug#825171: Acknowledgement ([powerpc] Some USB device are not (easily) supported for d-i)



On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 13:36 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Just for reference here is how one can mount a FAT32 USB key during a
> Debian installation on powerpc. This is needed for example when one
> wants to store the `dmesg` output during a d-i installation. Since
> isofs is stricly a read-only system, one cannot use the USB key used
> during the installation, instead a FAT32 key seems like a good option.
> 
> For some reason the linux kernel version used during installation does
> not have vfat module (`modprobe vfat` → fail ! Thus `mount` does not
> work). Instead one should:
> 
> [Ctrl+2, search for modules from the iso]
> $ cp fat-modules-4.5.0-2-powerpc-di_4.5.3-2_powerpc.udeb /tmp
> $ cd /tmp
> $ ar -x fat-modules-4.5.0-2-powerpc-di_4.5.3-2_powerpc.udeb
> $ xzcat data.tar.xz > data.tar
> $ tar xf data.tar
> $ cd /tmp/lib/modules/4.5.0-2-powerpc/kernel/fs/fat
> $ insmod fat.ko
> $ insmod vfat.ko
> $ cd /tmp/lib/modules/4.5.0-2-powerpc/kernel/fs/nls
> $ insmod nls_cp437.ko
> $ insmod nls_utf8.ko
[...]

This should also do the job:

# udpkg -i .../fat-modules-4.5.0-2-powerpc-di_4.5.3-2_powerpc.udeb
# depmod

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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