Teemu Ikonen wrote: > I'd like to test debian-installer on a brand new PC with an ASUS A7V600 > motherboard. This motherboard contains a 3Com 3C940 ethernet controller, > which is not supported even in the mainstream stable kernels and thus my > attempt at installing sarge with the Beta 1 debian-installer images > (netinstall) stalled on the network device detection.
I suppose you could just continue past that and do a CD install. Of course you'd then have to get a fixed kernel onto the installed machine somehow before it could be put on the net. > I've now successfully built a kernel-image .deb with a patched 2.4.22 kernel > source, which should support the 3C940. Is there a howto or some other > documentation on building d-i cdrom images with a custom kernel and modules? > I tried to decipher the documentation on d-i CVS, but must have missed the > necessary information, if it was there in the first place. We're not at the point of having a HOWTO for this yet. What you need to look at is the linux-kernel-di package (kernel/linux-kernel-di in CVS), whose README describes how to make it generate udebs from a kernel-image .deb. Then you'll want to look at the debian-installer source package (AKA the build/ directory in CVS), whose README describes how to put udebs in localudebs, and how to build it. You'll probably have to edit something in its config/ directory to make it use your new kernel version. People have gotten custom kernels to work I know, but I'm still waiting for a real HOWTO from someone who knows how to do it. -- see shy jo
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