Re: Modify Squeeze Netinstaller CD (including Firmware)

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:19 PM, George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> wrote:

On Wednesday 27 April 2011 17:08:36 Mario Kleinsasser wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:02 PM, George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 April 2011 15:51:10 Mario Kleinsasser wrote:
> > > It seems like the issue is the bsdtar command.
> > > Bsdtar morphs the correct vmlinuz image into "data".
> > >
> > > Debian 5:
> > > 14:23 root@HighwayToHell:~/netinstaller/cd/install.amd# file vmlinuz
> > > vmlinuz: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version
> > > 2.6.26-2-amd64 (unknown@Debian), RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x1, Normal VGA
> > >
> > > Debian 601a:
> > > 14:30 root@HighwayToHell:~/netinstaller6/cd/install.amd# file vmlinuz
> > > vmlinuz: data
> >
> > I downloaded:
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/6.0.1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.1

> > a- amd64-netinst.iso

> >
> > $ bsdtar -C CD/ -xf debian-6.0.1a-amd64-netinst.iso
> >
> > $ file CD/install.amd/vmlinuz
> > CD/install.amd/vmlinuz: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version
> > 2.6.32-5-amd64 (unknown@Debian), RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x2, Normal VGA
> >
> > bsdtar and libarchive are all 2.8.4-1 in stable, testing and unstable.
>
> I am doing this jobs on:
>
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
> Release: 9.10
> Codename: karmic

Ahem, versions help to avoid confusion.

Yes you are right! Moving to Debian 6 now... :-)

> So i am by the way not up to date.
>
> The versions are:
> ii bsdtar 2.6.2-1
> tar(1) from FreeBSD, using libarchive
> ii libarchive1 2.6.2-1
> Single library to read/write tar, cpio, pax,

Yes, these debian binary packages come from the same source package,
libarchive.

> So this machine is a way behind the current release. I guess thats the
> problem and its fixed in the meantime.

libarchive received quite some fixes after 2.6.2-1... see debian changelog from
that version to 2.8.4. You want to report that bug to Ubuntu, as it works on
Debian (you can prepare a minimal Debian stable/testing/unstable chroot on
your Ubuntu, and try it out inside, see debootstrap or pbuilder/cowbuilder or
schroot)

Good tip!

> > > After using 7z to extract the iso, all is working fine!
> >
> > Hm.
>
> Hm too :-), but hey it works ;-)

The less buggy app, then :-)

Mario

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