On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 08:43:13AM +0100, Laurent COOPER wrote: > Thank you for enquiries > > I made the i386 boot key with a 1G usb key, using the dd command > > (dd if=debian-8.3.0....i386 of=/dev/sdb bs=4M) > > I next use fdisk to create sdb3 and made a fat32 filesystem. Copied on it > > - the missing firmware with the deb file > - the missing firmware extrated from debfile in a /firmare subdirectory
You did name the subdirectory /firmware I would hope. I think I always use the root directory option rather than /firmware, but according to the user guide either should work. > check-missing-firmware could not load the ipw2200-bs.fw > > I thought it was possibly because it was on sdb3 and not sdb1 > > I could mount manually the filesystem with mount and read sdb3 although > > I copied the same file on a quite large usbstick (4G) with FAT32 > filesystem. All was this time on sdc1 > > didn't work neither > > Finally , after reading that fat was a first stage supported, but not > necessaraly fat32, i copied the files again, this time on a small 512M > usb key in FAT. > > This third time it worked. I know exFAT doesn't work (I tried a 64GB once), which makes sense. I thought I have used FAT32 devices successfully before, but maybe I am remembering wrong. -- Len Sorensen
