Re: Custom debian-installer kernel - was: Re: Up cl

Hello all,

thanks for your help.

I didn't get it to boot for installation. I still think there is some 
kind of "size" problem when loading kernel + initramfs.

But I have a working installation now. :-)

I couldn't write the CD contents to the hard disk as suggested, since I 
already have a NetBSD installation on the 2nd hard disk (1st hd is HPUX).
So I used Adrian's December 2025 CD image to make an installation in 
qemu. Then I dumped the contents of the qemu root fs and wrote it back 
to the physical disk on the machine in NetBSD.
NetBSD uses a "disklabel" partitioning scheme on the disk, so I used the 
blkdevparts Linux kernel parameter to specify the partition boundaries. 
Maybe that's not needed and Linux understands the disklabel, but I 
didn't try since I lost patience and wanted to get it going finally.

I'm using that APT sources.list:

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/  sid main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 13.0.0 _Sid_ - Unofficial hppa NETINST 
20251206-07:29]/ sid main
#

regards,
chris