Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:26 PM, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> > wrote: > > Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > >> I am trying to install Debian 8.0 on my system. While installing it > >> reported some firmware being missing (more specifically > >> brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) so I downloaded the firmware files from > >> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/jessie/current/ > >> > >> I am using USB stick as an installation media which I accomplished using > >> $ dd if=<debian.iso_file_name> of=/dev/sdb bs=4M; sync > > > > I'm not sure which iso you downloaded. If it was the netinst version > > from https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/ > > take a look further down the page where there's a panel with a red > > cross. Here you can get the netinst iso with firmware included within > > it. bcm43xx-0.fw 96224 Jun 15 2014 is in there. > > I downloaded > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.0.0/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-8.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso > whose integrity I checked using sha512sum, sha256sum and md5sum. I > also verifies gpg signatures for the same. So I am pretty sure I have > the official Debian 8.0 dvd1 iso. > > I am stuck at how to create a separate partition to hold the firmware > files as mentioned in Debian Installation guide.
This is what I did: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz I downloaded that (~40MB), and zcat boot.img.gz > /tmp/boot.img I mounted it (1GB) mount /tmp/boot.img /mnt and it looks very much like the /isolinux/ directory on the netinst CD. It has one kernel and two initrds, a text and a gtk one, corresponding to the files which accompany boot.img.gz at the website. I copied my installation iso file and the drivers that I use cp -i .../foo.iso .../driverfoo.fw .../drivebar.fw /mnt/ then unmounted it and copied it to a stick cp -i /tmp/boot.img /dev/sdX Then I booted with that stick as normal. This only works if the iso fits into the remainder of the 1GB "partition"---except it's not actually a partition: the stick will mount thus mount /dev/sdX /mnt and not mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150430013515.GA20032@alum
