On Thu 25 Feb 2021 at 10:36:40 (+0800), Robbi Nespu wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:07:09 +0000, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > [T]his is from memory; I haven't done it for some time. > > > > 1. The USB stick you boot from will have empty space or a secomd > > partition. > > > There only one partition but there is lot of empty space
Take care: this stick will have very strange partitioning. This is how fdisk sees a buster stick on this system: Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdb1 * 0 774143 774144 378M 0 Empty /dev/sdb2 4048 9711 5664 2.8M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) Fdisk can create a partition for you to use with the commands: (defaults in parentheses) # fdisk /dev/sdX p n (p) (3) (0000000) accept the defaults. The actual numbers may vary (0000000) from week to week with different versions. t (3) c p w Don't just type them blindly: read and take account of the responses from fdisk. Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdb1 * 0 774143 774144 378M 0 Empty /dev/sdb2 4048 9711 5664 2.8M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) /dev/sdb3 786432 1998847 1212416 592M c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Now you can create the filesystem: # mkdosfs -v -i 12345670 -F 32 -n mypartition /dev/sdX3 > > 2. Extract the firmware files from the .deb and put them on the > > stick. Mount it # mount /dev/sdX3 /mnt Copy the firmware from wherever you have it # cp -ip /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode /mnt # umount /mnt > It doesn't matter where I put right (on root location)? or need to > have special directory? Root is best. IIRC the installer looks widely for partitions, but not to any depth in each. > > 3. Boot and change to console 2: ALT-F2. > > > > 4. Mount the partition holding the firmware on /mnt. Type: # mount -t vfat /dev/ and press TAB twice. You'll get a listing of everything in /dev. Usually sticks appear as /dev/sd… so type s and press TAB twice. You should be able to distinguish the stick from any other drives. So you end up with, say: # mount -t vfat /dev/sdb3 /mnt Check by typing: # ls -l /mnt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 707392 Aug 22 2019 iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode That would confirm the correct partition. > > 5. Create /lib/firmware: mkdir /lib/firmware and transfer the > > firmware there. > > > > 6. ALT-F1 to go back to d-i. d-i should now find the firmware. Note that on most systems, steps 3 through 6 are unnecessary as the installer will find the firmware itself anyway. If you can find iwlwifi-2030-5.ucode, by all means copy it onto the stick as well as iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode. The latter is at least 8 years old, and can probably do all that -5 ever could. Typically the installer will try loading each version in reverse order (newest first). (It's IWLWIFI, or course.) Cheers, David.
