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| Cajus Pollmeier 2004-10-28, 2:48 am |
| Hiho!
Just one question. Lets say I'd put some extra driver modules for hardware
not officially supported by the debian installer on a floppy disk (in form of
an a .udeb) and let the installer load this file during the installation in
order to detect the additional hardware.
Would this udeb get installed into my target system later on? If this
additional driver is needed for i.e. disk access, it should be placed in
the initrd when the target kernel gets installed.
Any comments?
Greetings,
Cajus
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| Joey Hess 2004-10-28, 7:49 am |
| Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
> Just one question. Lets say I'd put some extra driver modules for hardware
> not officially supported by the debian installer on a floppy disk (in form of
> an a .udeb) and let the installer load this file during the installationin
> order to detect the additional hardware.
>
> Would this udeb get installed into my target system later on? If this
> additional driver is needed for i.e. disk access, it should be placed in
> the initrd when the target kernel gets installed.
It would not. You can however include a udeb on your floppy that
installs a prebaseconfig hook script which would run after the base
system is installed, or a base-installer hook script which would run
just before base is installed (or perhaps both), and at that point do
one of these things, in approximate order of difficulty and inverse
order of cleanliness and desirability:
a. copy the module into /target from the d-i system
b. install a .deb of the module into /target from the floppy
c. add something to sources.list for the apt repository you should have
that contains the .deb, and then use apt-install to get it installed
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| Cajus Pollmeier 2004-10-28, 7:49 am |
| Am Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2004 10:38 schrieb Joey Hess:
> Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
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> It would not. You can however include a udeb on your floppy that
> installs a prebaseconfig hook script which would run after the base
> system is installed, or a base-installer hook script which would run
> just before base is installed (or perhaps both), and at that point do
> one of these things, in approximate order of difficulty and inverse
> order of cleanliness and desirability:
>
> a. copy the module into /target from the d-i system
> b. install a .deb of the module into /target from the floppy
> c. add something to sources.list for the apt repository you should have
> that contains the .deb, and then use apt-install to get it installed
Ok. Will try (b) to use the apoximated intersection between cleanliness
and difficulty ;-)
Cheers,
Cajus
PS: Sorry for mailing multiple times, but it took about three hours to see
the mail coming up in the list.
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