In the Debian Edu project, we generate our own CDs with adjustment to the installer and provided packages. We have also included some non-free firmware deb packages in the naive hope that d-i would use them when needed. This has proven to not work, as d-i do not look for firmware packages in the APT repository on the CD.
Yesterday, I figured out a workaround for this, and I wanted to share the solution with the rest of you, and ask if perhaps the default behaviour of debian-cd or d-i (hw-detect) should change to make this workaround unneeded. The d-i package hw-detect look for firmware packages in / and /firmware/ on the CD and USB stick available during installation, while debian-cd build CDs with packages under /pool/. To get d-i to find the provided firmware packages, I wrote a script to create /firmware/ on the CD and populate it with symlinks to the packages in /pool/. To enable it, set DISC_FINISH_HOOK in CONF.sh to point to a script looking like this: #!/bin/sh # # Debian installer (hw-detect) do not look in pool/ for firmware packages. # It only look in / and /firmware/ on the CDs and USB sticks. Adjust # the CD and DVD to also provide the firmware packages in a location # checked by hw-detect. set -e CDDIR="$4" mkdir $CDDIR/firmware cd $CDDIR/firmware ln -s ../pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/*.deb . Should this be the default behaviour of debian-cd, or should hw-detect be changed to look for firmware packages where debian-cd put them when firmware debs is in the package list? CC to debian-edu, to keep us in the loop. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2flwrxfs6q9....@login2.uio.no
