Hi Brian, On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 10:46:47AM +0000, Brian wrote: > 1. Stop at the 'Detect network hardware' stage and switch to a console. > > 2. Unpack the .deb for the firmware you want: > > ar -x /cdrom/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/<your_firmware.deb>
Because I was using the non-free firmware installers, the firmware was already present in /lib/firmware and still the (jessie net-)installer did not ask for it. In my other follow-up I mentioned that a daily d-i stretch ISO (again of the unofficial non-free firmware variety) did actually work as far as wifi firmware was concerned, but bombed out with a package conflict. It turns out that switching to the console and doing "apt-get install -f" as it suggested did resolve that and the install was able to proceed. I have ended up with a successful install of stretch, entirely installed over wifi, which is very encouraging. I'm undecided whether to stay on testing though, so I might yet end up trying a few different things to get stable installed… Cheers, Andy
