Hi Adrian and Michael, Indeed, it would be great to have a floppy driver at installation time. But it seems that the floppy-module udeb was removed. Would it be possible to ship it in the udeb kernel package instead, either built-in or as a module ?
I wonder if one of the two following patches (against source package 'linux' - one patch would suffice !) would work. They are untested - but I hope it will help to find the correct solution nevertheless. Regards, JH Chatenet PS : it is the opportunity to thank you (and Samuel Thibault) for all your work on the alpha kernel and towards a working debian installer on alpha - and the other ports ! First patch : have the floppy driver built-in diff -Naur a/linux-5.5.17/debian/config/alpha/config b/linux-5.5.17/debian/config/alpha/config --- a/linux-5.5.17/debian/config/alpha/config 2020-04-15 04:35:16.000000000 +0200 +++ b/linux-5.5.17/debian/config/alpha/config 2020-04-21 15:31:52.645845117 +0200 @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ ## ## file: drivers/block/Kconfig ## -CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m +CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SX8=m CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD=m Second patch : ship the floppy module in the kernel udeb diff -Naur a/linux-5.5.17/debian/installer/modules/alpha-generic/kernel-image b/linux-5.5.17/debian/installer/modules/alpha-generic/kernel-image --- a/linux-5.5.17/debian/installer/modules/alpha-generic/kernel-image 2018-12-29 20:49:45.000000000 +0100 +++ b/linux-5.5.17/debian/installer/modules/alpha-generic/kernel-image 2020-04-21 15:36:55.527347025 +0200 @@ -1 +1,2 @@ #include <kernel-image> +floppy
