Followup-For: Bug #1031696 X-Debbugs-Cc: p...@akeo.ie Control: reassign -1 debian-cd Control: tags -1 moreinfo
I forgot to mention: thanks, Pete, for testing this UEFI file transposition support with bookworm's d-i alpha 2. We're all volunteers and I'm no expert with the CD image build process, so there's no guarantee we can improve the behaviour for the bookworm release (the firmware-nonfree archive is relatively new, and there may be bugs as it is introduced) - but let's see what we can do. Something that symlinks can do is to allow image creators to save space by by de-duplicating files. The 'debian-bookworm-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso' has 142M of content under 'pool/non-free-firmware/' according to 'du -sh'. That's about a fifth of the netinst image size. To state my understanding of the problem, you'd like either: - The file symlinks in the relevant CD images to be replaced by file contents OR - The result of copying the filesystem from the CD image to a FAT32-format filesystem to emit files instead of symlinks A question: what operating system(s) and/or filesystem copying methods are you seeing the problem with?