Re: Creating own installer images
On Thu, Jul 01 at 06:41PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
> I need to create special Debian installer images, as we have
> machines here with Promise PDC20378 S-ATA RAID controllers and
> need to install Woody on them. The driver for this controller
> was opensourced, but it's only available as a module, so no
> luck with just building it statically into the kernel.
>
> I've googled around for (what felt like) ages, and the best I
> could find was
> <http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/pipermail/plug/2004-January/049627.html>.
> Following the instructions mentioned there I was able to get a
> custom-built kernel-image.deb and make a bootable Woody CD.
>
> However, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to create
> a fitting initrd image where I can place ft3xx.o (for the
> S-ATA controller). Advice on how to get the installer
> auto-load that (and scsi_mod, on which it depends) would come
> in handy, too. Even better, the CD doesn't boot very far,
> because it can't find _any_ root.bin (I guess that's the name
> for the initrd image, since there's RAMDISK smeared all over
> the screen at this step). But as soon as I figure out how to
> create it I could always place it on a floppy.
>
> Any advice/pointers greatly appreciated, since I think I
> tripled the amount of grey in my hair today ;)
and when you learn how to do this, be sure to report back,
because there are some more of us grey-bound folks out here...
:)
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Do you want to track the ERROR MESSAGES WHEN STARTING "X"
(using startx) but the screen scrolls by too fast... and then
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startx 1> startx.log 2>&1
This will dump a bunch of text to the file 'startx.log'.
View this later at your convenience.
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