Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 17:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 4/21/20 7:53 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote:
> > floppy.ko for alpha is in the kernel image deb file,
> >
> > debian-10.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso/iso9660://pool-alpha/main/l/linux/linux-image-5.5.0-1-alpha-smp_5.5.13-2_alpha.deb/deb://CONTENTS/lib/modules/5.5.0-1-alpha-smp/kernel/drivers/block
> >
> > but it is not present in any udeb file, or in the
> > debian-10.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso/iso9660://boot/initrd.gz/gunzip://ucpio://lib/modules/5.5.0-1-alpha-generic/kernel/drivers/block
> >
> > It should be relatively easy to put it there manually (unpack,
> > repack), or fix the iso build scripts to include it too.
> debian-installer does not use a kernel package, it boots the bare kernel image
> and loads additional modules either from the initial ramdisk or module udebs
> such as "ata-modules-5.5.0-2-alpha".
>
> Compiling the module into the kernel is surely the easiest approach.

Yes, I know. I am just saying where one can get compatible module in
case somebody wants to get the floppy.ko manually and use it. I did
say it is not in the initrd or in the udeb, so obviously it is not
working now. We all know that.