On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:20:43AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I can deal with a two-step install process for my video cards, as long as it > is properly documented. But I would serioulsy recommend that we produce > easy to use non-free installer disks to go along with the Debian installer > disks, not because of the GPUs, but because of the network cards. If this > would slow down the release too much, make these AFTER the release, there is > no reason why we can't release non-free a bit later.
I recently installed a new server with Etch which uses a bnx2 network chip. This requires firmware from non-free. It wasn't particularly hard to install the firmware package on another box, copy the resulting firmware file to a usb stick, and mount it from vt2 and place it in the firmware directory so that the installer could load the network driver. A slight bit of work, but not hard. I do not expect debian to produce an installer with non-free code included. After all non-free is not part of debian as far as I understand things. Documenting the requries steps would be nice of course. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]