I thought squeeze has became LTS ?

Anyway I'm obliged to install squeeze because the software stack I will use
has not been ported and tested on wheezy yet.

Regards.


On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 05:57:47PM +0200, Sylvain Rabot wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to setup a PXE with netboot install of squeeze for some HP
> > hardware that uses broadcom 10G cards.
> >
> > Those broadcom cards are only correctly detected with the 3.2 kernel from
> > the backports (and with an additional non-free driver).
> >
> > In order to do a netboot install I need debian-install to use a 3.2
> kernel
> > instead of the regular 2.6.32.
> >
> > I tried to adapt this
> >
> https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/using-a-custom-kernel-with-cloud-servers/
> > but had no chance so far because the following packages do not exist in
> > squeeze-backports
> >
> > E: Unable to locate package acpi-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> 'acpi-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> > E: Unable to locate package fat-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> 'fat-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> > E: Unable to locate package fb-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'fb-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> > E: Unable to locate package floppy-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> > 'floppy-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> > E: Unable to locate package input-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> 'input-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> > E: Unable to locate package kernel-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> 'kernel-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> > E: Unable to locate package nic-extra-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> > 'nic-extra-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> > E: Unable to locate package nic-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> 'nic-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> > E: Unable to locate package nic-pcmcia-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> > 'nic-pcmcia-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> > E: Unable to locate package nic-usb-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> > 'nic-usb-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> > E: Unable to locate package nic-wireless-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> > 'nic-wireless-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> > E: Unable to locate package pcmcia-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> > 'pcmcia-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> > E: Unable to locate package usb-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> 'usb-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> > E: Unable to locate package usb-storage-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> > 'usb-storage-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> > E: Unable to locate package virtio-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex
> > 'virtio-modules-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-di'
> >
> > Complete log at http://pastebin.com/SQBAr0HU
> >
> > So I am wondering if it is possible to build the debian-installer with
> the
> > 3.2 kernel.
>
> Well wheezy (the current stable release) is already 3.2.  Why would you
> be installing an obsolete version of Debian?
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
>



-- 
Sylvain Rabot <[email protected]>

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