John, I only provided a temporary workaround (a hack, that ugly, but
will work) in case somebody really wants to try it quickly. In no way
it was supposed to be 'official' or 'correct'. Obviously compiling it
into installer kernel or udeb is the only option forward, and this is
what I said in 'or
On 4/21/20 7:59 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote:
>>> 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
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 17:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
>
> On 4/21/20 7:53 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote:
> > floppy.ko for alpha is in the kernel image deb file,
> >
> >
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
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
For reference, the recipe at:
The recipe at https://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2019/11/msg00033.html
for adding firmware to the install disk did indeed work.
I booted with the modified install disk in the SCSI CD drive and the
original in a second IDE CDROM drive that runs on a PCI card.
On 4/21/20 4:16 AM, Michael Cree wrote:
> So is the floppy module included in the install ISO, and, if so,
> can you run insmod on it to enable the floppy drive while
> installing?
That's an easy fix. I assume there used to be a floppy-modules package
that was removed. We can re-add that. Or just
>
> Interesting. I've just checked on my running XP1000 and I see there
> is no /dev/fd0 either. I'm running a self-compiled 5.6.3 kernel and
> the floppy module is built. Modprobing it loaded it and then I have
> a /dev/fd0 device node. What's more it works --- I managed to list
> the
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 11:37:14AM +1000, Darren Goossens wrote:
> My experience with the April 2020 Alpha iso
>
> Booted fine, asked for me to load qlogic/1040.bin on removable media.
> I downloaded the deb file for buster, exploded it and copied all the
> bin files onto both a floppy and a USB
My experience with the April 2020 Alpha iso
Booted fine, asked for me to load qlogic/1040.bin on removable media.
I downloaded the deb file for buster, exploded it and copied all the
bin files onto both a floppy and a USB stick. The AlphaServer 1200 has
a USB card in a PCI slot.
Put both the USB
Hi Darren!
On 4/20/20 11:49 AM, Darren Goossens wrote:
> The floppy disk controller did not work either, I recall clearly. I
> tried a PCI USB card, IDE CD, SCSI CD and putting the files on a
> second HDD. None of the storage was visible to the Debian installer.
>
> If this might have changed, I
>
> You can add the firmware files manually during installation with a
> floppy disk. The installer asks during installation if you want
> to provide additional firmware using removable media.
>
Thanks for that
The floppy disk controller did not work either, I recall clearly. I
tried a PCI USB
Hi Darren!
On 4/20/20 10:53 AM, Darren Goossens wrote:
> I understand your comment about help being appreciated. I'm afraid I
> am an amateur, and my day job is nothing to do with software. I am
> happy to test things and see how they work and report back, but I am
> not a developer -- not even a
On 4/20/20 10:28 AM, Darren Goossens wrote:
> That's great! Thanks again for all your troubles. A question: When I
> last tried an install on an Alpha, qlogic firmware for the storage was
> missing (eg SCSI disks, CD etc). Does the Alpha image have any new
> firmware compared to the previous
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 4:30 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I just uploaded updated installation images 2020-04-19 for the
> following Debian Ports architectures [1]:
>
> * alpha
> * hppa
> * ia64
> * m68k
> * powerpc
> * ppc64
> * sparc64
>
> These images should finally
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