On 27/01/15 19:19, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Riley Baird (2015-01-27 04:01:20) >> That's a good idea. That being said, tarballs containing *all* of >> the firmware are already (unofficially) produced on a regular >> basis[1]. >> >> Perhaps an easier way of solving this problem would be to have >> the installer tell the user where these tarballs/zip files are, >> and that they need to extract them onto a USB stick if they want >> to use them during the installation? > > maybe it would also not hurt to, in addition to that, also make > this note on the main download page for the CD images? (probably > also noting that these files are unofficial and not part of Debian > but provided as a courtesy towards owners of hardware that > unfortunately requires non-free drivers/firmware)
Unofficial CD images with the firmware included are also made. You don't even need a USB stick. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ > That downloading these tarballs/zip files and putting them on a USB > stick would allow the Debian installer to find them was also news > to me and until now I always manually grabbed the specific needed > .deb from a mirror. Personally, I prefer this method. You can update the firmware more easily and it makes it easier to know which non-free packages are on your system. But it's important that people at least know about the other method. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54c74bbd.7090...@bitmessage.ch
