Hello, list! Have tried to install Debian Squeeze (weekly builds 2010-11-08) on a laptop with Intel 2100 Wifi card. Card's firmware is packed into native debianic non-free tarball. As explained here: http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200, it is enough to supply the tarball to the running installer on any removable media mentioned. But the installer first seek for fd0 floppy and seek forever, endlessly educating me about FAT16 file system, dangerous uppercase names and related troubles, as I have noticed at hidden F4 console. No single warning sign, progress bar or other useful info on a current active screen. As a countermeasure, I have searched my pockets, found USB floppy drive and wrote floppy diskette, plugged that into laptop but installer continue its tries for ghost fd0 and does not react on other removable media inserted in all sockets and holes. If you, please, help me to find a workaround to subdue that bad robot? Maybe it is possible to implant the firmware into installer ISO? And no, I cannot install using a netinstall image, because the installer does not support WPA and even if we will resolve firmware situation, the installation will not continue anyway.
A bit of offtopic, sorry. Dear Debian Team, would you, please, to pay attention to the installer first? Let us find and pin up bugs, post wise comments, suggest features, analyze patches, flood up the mailing lists _after_ the system being installed. Isn't it an installer a thing that has to be polished first? In addition, it seems to be useful to inform a human side of the installation process what currently is going on in any situation, not success stories only. -- Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinvng+-u8cflupcad8m+4jti3fpdqg2qacxn...@mail.gmail.com
