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Mikey T.K.
Asked: 2016-10-17 13:32:20 +0800 CST

Installing an apt package on the "live" (installer) environment

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Note: This is for a 16.04 Server image, so the standard live environment is not available.

I'm trying to access apt from the ALTF2 extra shell in order to install the package required to make ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) targets visible to the system (in this case, vblade). The idea being, that I drop into a terminal, get the target disk visible, install onto it, drop back into the terminal and configure the installed system to load the proper modules on boot.

I understand that the image itself (booting from a USB drive) contains a number of apt packages, but apt itself does not appear to be in path in the install environment.

Also acceptable would be a way get get AoE working without the package, I suppose.

What would be the right way to accomplish this?

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  1. Best Answer

    My original goal here was a wash, since the installer doesn't recognize drives added this way, but regarding the actual question here, getting important packages running in the install environment, the magic command is udpkg.

    udpkg can be called with the -i option just like regular dpkg with the .deb files mounted at /cdrom. These packages are installed to the ramdrive install environment and go away when the system is rebooted.

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