On 9/19/21 11:14 PM, loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote:
i start bullseye installer from usb stick
it tells me to insert usb stick containing firmwarei fail in this step many
times
after many failures, i learn that firmware shall be in vfat partition, not
ext4and i have to remove installer stick so that installer can read firmware
stickthough i have many usb ports
after firmware are successfully loaded and after some stepsinstaller complains
it can't read installer stickno matter how quickly i insert installer stick
after loading firmware
is there some usb command that can help after i remove and insert installer
stick?
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You need two USB sticks -- one with the Debian installer and another
with the firmware.
I assume that you have successfully copied a Debian installer ISO image
onto a USB stick. Do not remove the Debian installer USB stick until
prompted to do so at the end of installation.
The firmware stick should be "factory formatted" with VFAT (e.g. Microsoft):
2021-09-20 00:05:18 root@dipsy ~
# lsblk -f /dev/sdb
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE%
MOUNTPOINT
sdb
`-sdb1 vfat ****-**** 58.3G 0%
/media/dpchrist/****-****
Copy the firmware *.deb files to the root directory of the firmware USB
stick:
2021-09-20 00:05:19 root@dipsy ~
# ls /media/dpchrist/****-****/*.deb | head
/media/dpchrist/****-****/amd64-microcode_3.20181128.1_amd64.deb
/media/dpchrist/****-****/amd64-microcode_3.20181128.1_i386.deb
/media/dpchrist/****-****/atmel-firmware_1.3-4_all.deb
/media/dpchrist/****-****/bluez-firmware_1.2-4_all.deb
/media/dpchrist/****-****/dahdi-firmware-nonfree_2.11.1.0.20170917-1_all.deb
/media/dpchrist/****-****/firmware-amd-graphics_20190114-2_all.deb
/media/dpchrist/****-****/firmware-ath9k-htc_1.4.0-97-g75b3e59+dfsg-3_all.deb
/media/dpchrist/****-****/firmware-atheros_20190114-2_all.deb
/media/dpchrist/****-****/firmware-b43-installer_019-4+deb10u1_all.deb
/media/dpchrist/****-****/firmware-b43legacy-installer_019-4+deb10u1_all.deb
Insert the firmware USB stick when prompted. Then press <Enter>. I
find the user interface confusing at this point -- it should indicate
that firmware has been loaded, but instead prompts for a firmware USB
stick again. I guess that is so you can insert multiple firmware USB
sticks (?). Remove the USB firmware stick and choose the option that
you do not want to load firmware. The installer should apply the
firmware and proceed with the install.
David
