Am Donnerstag, 4. Juni 2015 schrieb Steve Litt: > [...] > Why, why, WHY was that not stated *right up front*? From the > beginning, *scream* "Don't waste time: If you get a prompt saying > unsupported hardware, load the right stuff into your thumbdrive and > just try again." Very explicit, exact instructions should be given how > to do this. Imagine the difference... > > You come home from Costco clutching your brand new laptop, all hot and > bothered to install Devuan because you've heard it's simpler and better > made than the others. You boot your Devuan DVD, and it tells you your > network card needs a firmware. Fortunately for you, the documentation > *screamed* that you might need nonfree firmware, walked you through > exactly how to thumb-drive it, you use a different computer to put it > on the thumb drive, stick it in, try again, and the install goes > perfectly. Devuan was every bit as good as you thought. > > Bottom line: Be on the same team as reasonable users. > > SteveT
+1, but who says the thumb drive will work without firmware for the USB host? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
