On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 11:20:43AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > On 10/02/2024 at 20:06, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > It may also be possible to tether via a cable to a mobile phone and do the > > netinst install that way. > > Right, sorry for not mentioning it in my previous reply. > > The OP mentioned in debian-user that they have an iOS (Apple) device. The > package ipheth-utils provides a tethering driver for the iPhone (and > possibly other iOS devices). I do not know whether it is required, but it is > not available in the Debian installer environment. I did not find it in > Debian live package lists > (https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/*.packages) > either. >
I wouldn't expect there to be much in debian-live for Apple, no. I'd always recommend netinst but this is one of the times when it just won't work, obviously. For common wifi cards with loadable firmware - it may well work. Broadcom, no. The DVD-1 image at https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-12.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso has the installer on it, so that might well be a candidate to try. If you do install from DVD-1 and have no network at the time when you install, you may need to fix up /etc/apt/sources.list afterwards :) > > With my debian-user mailing list hat on: please post to one list primarily > > and don't cross-post between lists unless invited to. Thanks :) > > When in doubt, true cross-post to a couple of lists seems acceptable to me > (so that replies can be cross-posted too), but it looks like the OP actually > sent multiple independent posts. > Yes, I was possibly a bit grumpy here: apologies All the very best, Andy (amaca...@debian.org)