On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 12:30:03PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 11:51:43PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 01:13:13AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 04:53:26PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > >> >Package: installation-reports > >> >Severity: normal > >> > > >> >I tried doing an install with a Stretch RC1 netinst CD. Worked fine, > >> >except that later in the install, right before asking about an apt > >> >mirror, the installer asked about scaning additional CDs. Previous > >> >versions of the netinst installer haven't asked that question; normally > >> >only the full-CD installers ask that. > >> > >> This is a deliberate change, yes. It makes the firmware netinsts more > >> useful now, for example... > > > >I thought that firmware had a separate prompting mechanism, triggered by > >the detection of missing firmware? If the installer notices missing > >firmware, it prompts for separate firmware media. > > There's also some netinsts with firmware included [1], and those are > the ones this will help with. The previous settings in apt-setup were > not very consistent and *very* old, so I've tweaked which images will > ask about extra media.
How does it help for the firmware-included images? And, any way to make it only ask that question in the firmware-included images?