Am Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2004 10:38 schrieb Joey Hess: > 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 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. > > 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.