Re: On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2009-01-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop writes: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: >> It would be nice if you (or someone else) would then explain[1] why >> having a limited set of d-i images + cd images which contained the >> non-free firmware necessary for certain hardware to boot would be an >> intractab

Re: On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2009-01-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Sure it does; it's a set of the initial media which contains the > > non-free firmware in *addition* to the normal stuff contained on > > the fully DFSG-free media. [You'd just need this for CD1, the > > ne

Re: On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2009-01-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: > Sure it does; it's a set of the initial media which contains the > non-free firmware in *addition* to the normal stuff contained on the > fully DFSG-free media. [You'd just need this for CD1, the netinst, > business card and cd images, and perhaps

Re: On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2009-01-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: > > It would be nice if you (or someone else) would then explain[1] > > why having a limited set of d-i images + cd images which contained > > the non-free firmware necessary for certain hardware to boot wou

Re: On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2009-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: > It would be nice if you (or someone else) would then explain[1] why > having a limited set of d-i images + cd images which contained the > non-free firmware necessary for certain hardware to boot would be an > intractable solution. From where I

On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2008-12-24 Thread Don Armstrong
Switching from -vote to -boot and -cd. On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: > > 1: -vote really is the wrong list to discuss this on; Cc'ing debian-cd > > so knowledgeable people there can tell me I'm on crack. > > Second of all, the analysis