On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Greg Madden wrote:
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.
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Peace,
Greg
Okay.
I have downloaded a netinst ISO, and written it to a CD using Brasero
rather than the CD/DVD Creator.
I started the installation process, but it fails at "Configure the
package manager", as it determines that all of the archive mirrors that
I have tried in Australia and the USA, are bad, especially
ftp.<your_country_code>.debian.org . The UWA, iinet, and AARNet mirrors,
which I understand to be the most commonly usd mirrors in Australia, are
included in the "bad" mirrors.
This is one of the problems with using net installations, when the
installation can't access the mirrors.
I do not know whether the firmware is faulty (the IPW firmware) or the
mirror settings within the downloaded netinst ISO, are bad.
But, it does not work.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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