Wed, 15 Jun 2011

Squeeze amd64 d-i images with Linux kernel 2.6.38.bpo

This is first release of backported Debian-installer for Debian GNU/Linux 6.0, Squeeze. You can download it from the place.

  • Debian 6.0.1 based
  • Kernel 2.6.38 (bpo.2)

Update #1: I updated images, as revision 0614. It is based on Debian 6.0.1 + firmware netinst. So, you don't need to make a memory stick to insert additional firmwares. Plus, this image includes new DHCP client which is fixed an interacting problem with some DHCP servers.

Notice: This ISO image doesn't include non-free firmware. You can take it from Debian official page (please see Debian squeeze installation information and look Section 2.2, Installation Guide). WPA support isn't implemented yet.

Enjoy!

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thank you for this backported Debian-installer

Posted by r2rien at 2011/06/14 (Tue) 01:02:33

Thank you!

This found the Intel 82579LM network card so I could install on a Dell Optiplex 790.

Posted by at 2011/06/15 (Wed) 23:17:51

Thanks for your work!

Will there be x86 version too?

Posted by azhag at 2011/06/26 (Sun) 02:15:20

Yes, I'm planning x86-32bit release when official 6.0.2 ISO file is released.

Posted by kmuto at 2011/06/27 (Mon) 22:44:58

How about ext4 support?

Posted by cjs at 2011/06/30 (Thu) 09:36:47

cjs,
As far as I know, squeeze debian-installer supports ext4 already.

Posted by kmuto at 2011/06/30 (Thu) 15:25:41

Sorry, I should have been clearer. The initrd on the ISO only contains support for FAT/VFAT and ISO. The rest is loaded from the CD. I'd like to boot the ISO from an ext4 (ext2 would suffice, I guess) partition using Grub2. Actually, I'd like to boot it from an ext4 partition on an md raid-1 volume, which might get converted into a raid-5 volume in the future. With lvm. =)

I suppose I could load a separate initrd, but it would be nice to have a self-containing installer ISO capable of booting in lots of different environments.

Posted by cjs at 2011/07/01 (Fri) 06:41:55
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