On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:28:05AM +0100, Dick Visser wrote: > 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?
Under /target goes the _being_ installed system. To get installing on a disk, one will need a driver for the disk. So install the udeb in "debian installer" > > BTW, what installer does for sure offer the 'driver floppy' functionality > (net, bc, etc) ? On the hardware that I installed, I never saw that question. This message is intended as "refresh" for your question. Cheers Geert Stappers
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