[15:11] <arges> Hi! I need to install a .deb package from a usb stick required for the target machine to boot after install. I understand that something like "d-i preseed/late_command string apt-install <something>" might be a way to acommplish this. how do i get apt-install to pick up something from a usb stick?
[15:15] <arges> In addition is there a way to just do this via menus in the installer?
[15:19] <xnox> infinity: ^ was there a dead simple way to side-load debs?
[16:12] <infinity> arges: I thought the plan was for the udeb postinst to set up the PPA in sources.list and then do the install via the network?
[16:12] <infinity> (Well, sources.list.d)
[16:13] <arges> infinity: so first it would be good to know for testing, and also if we setup a PPA to be added, we still need to get the target to install it
[16:16] <infinity> Also, if you have a deb that has no external dependencies, you don't really need apt, you could just copy it to target/tmp/, then in-target dpkg -i
[16:16] <infinity> Hackish, but would work.
[16:18] <xnox> infinity: do you happen to have dell driver-injection-disk for testing purposes?
[16:18] <arges> infinity: so if we add the PPA to the sources, then how do I tell teh installer to put these extra packages in the target? is this a preseed command or something in the menus
[16:21] <xnox> arges: d-i apt-setup/local0/repository, d-i apt-setup/local0/comment, d-i apt-setup/local0/key to add ppa, and then I'm guessing "d-i pkgsel/include string pkg"
[16:22] <arges> xnox: ok writing this down
[16:22] <xnox> to install.
[16:22] <xnox> but i'd want to test that.
[16:23] <arges> yea i'm going to hack a bit on my end to figure this out
[16:27] <xnox> arges: looking at driver-injection-disk.sh code, it does install all udebs it finds, and caches debs for in-target install.
[16:27] <xnox> arges: so the driver-injection-disk in question probably was not detected at all and thus didn't work at all.
[16:27] <arges> xnox: yup. so that's really what we want : ) so driver-injection-disk for testing/no-network install, and PPA for network install that works
[16:27] <arges> xnox: yea i'm having narinder format his disk to FAT and re-try, he was using ext2
[16:28] <xnox> arges: sounds good.
[16:28] <arges> : )