Hello Carlos! On 9/26/21 14:01, Carlos Milán Figueredo wrote: > While a valid hd-media for current Unstable is being built by Adrian, > I though I could play around with Debian Sarge that was the latest > version with official m68k support. I got into my hands a D-Link > DE-660+ PCMCIA card that according [1] should work on Linux; I > already tested on AmigaOS and NetBSD/amiga and it's working like a > charm. The issue is that Debian Sarge doesn't detect it and there is > not even a kernel message referencing the pcmcia.
Did you check whether the necessary kernel modules are present on the booted installer system? They should be in /lib/modules/$(VERSION)/*. As you already know from the unstable hd-media image, not different d-i images ship different module packages. For a certain driver to be available in a debian-installer image, it first must be enabled in the kernel configuration, so you have to check there first. Then it needs to be enabled as a debian-installer module in the directory debian/installer/* in the kernel packaging source [1]. Then the module udeb packages generated in [1] need to be included in the debian-installer image package list if it's a udeb that must be included in the initrd (for example, networking drivers for the network installer image). The idea is that the initrd contains all the modules that are needed to get the system up and running and access the installation medium. Thus, the cdrom installer image needs storage drivers in its initrd while the hd-media image needs modules for various filesystems and loopback mounting. In the past years, I have only worked on the cdrom debian-installer images and not touched network and hd-media installation as most people use the standard installation CDs. That's why you ran into the problems with hd-media when you tested it. But we will hopefully fix the issues with the hd-media installation images the next days. I just have to go through the module package lists and check which of these we need for HD installation and which will actually work. Firewire modules will certainly not work on m68k, for example. Adrian > [1] > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/tree/master/debian/installer/modules > [2] > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/tree/master/build/pkg-lists -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
