On Thursday 15 March 2012 7:26:53 pm Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I have had to replace the hard drive in my laptop computer, which is an > HP/Compaq NX5000, as the previous hard drive appeared to have failed. snip > With this policy change by the Debian people, to exclude "firmware", so > as to make installing Debian difficult, I have had problems, over time, > in trying to instal Debian 6 on different computers, being unable to > instal Debian 6, until Debian 6.03 was released. > > Is it possible to have this policy that excludes firmware from official > installable disks, overturned, so that Debian 6 can be more easily > installed? snip
There are net-install images of Squeeze + firmware on this page, also tarballs of firmare with instruction on use. http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/debian-installer/ bottom of page. -- Peace, Greg -- 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/201203151950.34371.gomadtr...@gci.net
