02-04-2009
Looks like a customized and automated Debian net-install to me. The initrd is the INITial RamDisk, which provides a minimal booting environment to the installer. It's usually a cpio archive (sometimes a formatted "device" file, used via Loopback), so it should be possible to dig around in there and change where it expects it's installation sources.
Another possibility might be to create a local mirror of the Debian repository and change the installation to use that as it's source, so you'll only have to download the packages once (and maybe some of them again if you want to update).
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usb-devices
usb-devices(1) Linux USB Utilities usb-devices(1)
NAME
usb-devices - print USB device details
SYNOPSIS
usb-devices
DESCRIPTION
usb-devices is a (bash) shell script that can be used to display details of USB buses in the system and the devices connected to them.
The output of the script is similar to the usb/devices file available either under /proc/bus (if usbfs is mounted), or under /sys/ker-
nel/debug (if debugfs is mounted there). The script is primarily intended to be used if the file is not available.
In contrast to the usb/devices file, this script only lists active interfaces (those marked with a "*" in the usb/devices file) and their
endpoints.
Be advised that there can be differences in the way information is sorted, as well as in the format of the output.
RETURN VALUE
If sysfs is not mounted, a non-zero exit code is returned.
FILES
/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb*
The part of the sysfs tree the script walks through to assemble the printed information.
/proc/bus/usb/devices
Location where the usb/devices file can normally be found for Linux kernels before 2.6.31, if usbfs is mounted.
/sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices
Location where the usb/devices file can normally be found for Linux kernel 2.6.31 and later, if debugfs is mounted.
SEE ALSO
lsusb(8), usbview(8).
AUTHORS
Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
usbutils-005 23 June 2009 usb-devices(1)