On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 08:29:37AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >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.
Yup, I was reviewing and testing the code in this area last night and I can verify that. >> 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. This is what I'm wondering - all my testing worked regardless of FAT/FAT32. Well, except the one where I built a locally hacked version with extra debug and broke the entire thing... :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt
