On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Joey Hess wrote: > Pretty much all installation methods include a menu item to load a > driver floppy, which can contain udebs that contain kernel modules or > other programs to be added to the installer's initrd. It's not very well > documented, but it's there. You'll also be prompted for a driver disk if > the installer cannot find eg, a driver for your ethernet card.
Hi Joey, thanks for pointing this out. However, I went installing on my system with this unknown disk controller, and the installer would just bail out, with no option to feed him a floppy. On the side, AFAIK all the little kernel udeb provide a small portion of functionality. So what you say, it is possible to have a floppy with a udeb of my driver, the installer loads the module into the kernel and off we go. On the installer disk, there is also a kernel-image deb, and that one does not include the module. How is the module supposed to be installed in the /target system? BTW, what installer does for sure offer the 'driver floppy' functionality (net, bc, etc) ? thans, -- dick visser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
