On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 07:34:08AM +0100, Daniel Nilsson wrote: > So what I was thinking about doing was to use the etch installer which > has a 2.6.12 kernel in which I believe there is support for this SATA > controller but then select to install the sarge distribution. Any > ideas if this will work or not? I realize I will need to make sure I > don't get the standard sarge kernel later on, but maybe I can select > to use the kernel off the etch install CD? If not, I can always build > a custom kernel later. My issue is rather running the installer in > such a way that it will find the system disk off the SATA controller > while installing sarge from scratch. Any other ideas on how to achieve > this in most welcome. Netbooting is an option as well for example, > would that help?
So I'm replying to my own message with the results of attempting to install sarge using the etch installer. It "sort of" works, but I didn't end up with the system that I wanted, here's a short description what I did: 1. Setup a netbootable installer from from a current build of d-i. 2. Run the installer in "expert" mode and when prompted install the stable distribution. 3. You will be prompted to select a 2.6.8 kernel since that is what is available in testing but not what I wanted (I needed >=2.6.12). Select any one of the 2.6.8 kernels anyway and complete the install. 4. When prompted to reboot, do not reboot but start a shell instead. 5. chroot /target and download the 2.6.12 kernel I wanted with wget. 6. Mount the proc filesystem mount -t proc none /proc 7. Install the 2.6.12 kernel with a simple dpkg -i <kernel.deb> What you end up with here is a system with all (?) stable packages but that is still biased towards the testing distribution. It seems there is something called pre-seeding (?) that will make the installer for example put in testing sources into /etc/apt/sources.list. That's not what I wanted, I wanted a pure stable system. Now this might be good enough for someone else and then the above should work. What I did instead was slightly more complicated... I used the sarge installer, but replaced the kernel with the kernel from the latest etch installer. This works fine up until the point where the installer tries to download the kernel modules from the net, that will fail since the stable distribution now doesn't have any modules for the 2.6.12 kernel you are running. At this point I started a shell, downloaded from: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-i386-2.6/) the corresponding 2.6.12 modules installed manually. Then you can go back to the installer and finish the remaining steps. Again before rebooting you will need to manually download and install the kernel you want to use, steps 5,6,7 above. Not an easy process, but I got the system I wanted :-) Just thought I'd share in case someone else is thinking about doing something similar, that path I took is probably not for a beginner though. There might be easier ways to accomplish the same thing though? /Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
