On 05/07/2010 12:02 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 07 mai 2010 à 09:49 +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : >> So the problem only occurs when installing on a host you don't have >> physical access to and which requires non-free firmware blobs to >> access the network? Does it occur in any other situation? >> >> I've never had to do such a thing, what is your current approach to >> that? I assume you aren't using CD images here since you mentioned >> netinst. > > I’ve never had trouble with such hardware. You can plug a virtual USB > device with a hd-media boot image, and put the firmwares on the same > image.
Right. It works, but it is an annoying extra step to do. And I had more than one customer asking me why Debian is forcing them to do such an extra step and why they should not just use Ubuntu. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4be706a3.3090...@bzed.de