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. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
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