On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 08:04:12AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Debian Installer testers answers to this are very often that lspci is > not available if they switch to vt2 during the install. Then our > answer is recommending them to boot with something else, like Knoppix > LiveCD. > > I'm wondering whether it could be possible to add /usr/bin/lspci as > soon as possible in the installation process. > > That binary is part of the pciutils package. This is why I CC this > mail to the package maintainer. > > That would probably require the pciutils source package to build a > udeb package with only /usr/bin/lspci in it.
FYI, I just patched Ubuntu's pciutils package this week to do this: http://people.ubuntulinux.org/patches/pciutils.udeb.diff This turns out to be useful once you try to drop discover1-data, since pci.ids is then the only way to display descriptive names for network interfaces in netcfg. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
