Hey Brian, > I did this, although usually I extract only the kernel and the initrd.
In that case you need an initrd with the loop module added, I tried to keep this as simple as possible. > I didn't expect this to work and indeed it didn't. My understanding is > that an ext* module is not available in the installer at this stage of > the install. 'cat /proc/filesystems' shows only the expected vfat and > iso9660 filesystems. Of course you're right, I didn't think of that :( As I said, I had hoped to avoid having to build a custom initrd, but in this case there's no way around that. @everyone not using a vfat partition: I have a readymade initrd with support for loop, ext*, reiser and xfs uploaded here: http://netload.in/dateirtpHKyDfSS/initrd.gz.htm (md5sum is 7bafb08e52f5335a58dd2868a3e77066) you need to replace your debian_iso/install.amd/initrd.gz with this one. Before you can mount i.e. an ext4 filesystem, you need to # modprobe ext4 That should be it. ---- If you don't trust me, you can create your own using the method I described in http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/05/msg00395.html You will need most of these: echo './lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/xfs ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2 ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext3 ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext4 ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/jbd ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/jbd/jbd.ko ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/jbd2 ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/jbd2/jbd2.ko ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/reiserfs ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/drivers/block/loop.ko ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/lib ./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/lib/crc16.ko'|cpio -o -H newc -A -F initrd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1368158473.3651.90.camel@xpsubuntu
