On Wed 28 Dec 2016 at 04:48:41 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I just purchased a used Lenovo T430 and did my interpretation of a minimal > install of Debian 8.6.0 with a Mate DE. > > During install was a warning message that two non-free drivers were > "required". As I had none available I chose the option to continue without > installing. It went on and I have an apparently fully functional system. > > I have two questions: > 1. Is there a log somewhere that would tell me what it thought was missing? > The laptop may have a feature that I've never used but would like if I > knew it existed.
grep -i firmware /var/log/installer/syslog > 2. The explicit raison detre of this laptop is to serve as a test bed for, > for want of a better term, alternative configurations. All install will be > done with a very custom preseed.cfg file. If I'm not interested in whatever > functionality provided by this non-free software, is there a way to bypass > that particular warning? https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/example-preseed.txt -- Brian.
