Re: Help building debian-installer for arm64
Hello all,
On 08/01/2018 16:26, Hermann Lauer wrote:
> Hello Richard,
>
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 06:52:20AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>>> I would like to build a custom debian-installer. The reason being, this
>>>>> arm64 platform has a custom PHY that I need to enable in the kernel to get
>>>>> network access.
> ....
>> I've been following this thread because I'm considering creating a custom
>> installer, focusing more on builtin option choices rather on a custom
>> kernel.
>
> The "PHY" I interpreted like a new kernel (module) is needed for your arm64 device
> to get the network up and running. So a new kernel package is needed, unless
> you want to run the final system with a module outside of dpkg.
>
>> I don't understand the mechanics of Hermann's answer. I suspect there is a
>> critical gap in my reading.
>From what I understood you'd like to "default/force" some of the choices
during the installation process ?
My intent is different, but maybe while building the installer you can
use a configuration file or the like to give some inputs to the
installer ? A debian-installer might be able to help there.
>
> Trying to clarify:
>
> If you only want debian on one (or a few) special system (My case: Trying to get a
> Banana M2 Ultra running with an Allwinner R40 ARM SoC) there are other ways to get debian
> on such a system up. The way I used sometimes as describe above is to build the normal
> kernel package (needed anyways for operating the debian system later on) and
> use it for the installation (with some modules compiled in to avoid ramdisk module issues).
>
Hermann are you suggesting to build a Debian Kernel following
these instructions:
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/kernel/linux.git/tree/debian/README.source?h=sid
You'd then put some modules as built-in and use the udeb to build a new
installer with a custom kernel ?
I don't see how you can "use it for installation" otherwise.
Thanks for the idea, I think it might solve my problem. Just need to
figure out how to do it now :)
> If you need something different, sorry if I caused trouble to you.
> Greetings
> Hermann
>
Best,
Loys
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