[Frans Pop] > I think the problem with that is that including the firmware on the > CD in the first place is in contradiction with Debian's current > policy not to include firmware in the distribution. The current > firmware support is very explicitly limited to support loading from > external media *prepared by the user*.
Well, the use case I am working on would be identical for a user who prepared a CD or DVD, so I believe it should work the same way with CDs and USB sticks. :) > An additional issue with non-free firmware is that including it in > the way you propose would (I think) mean it will get loaded without > any prompting of the user, which may in some cases violate licence > terms. Perhaps. I have not gotten to a point where I can test what happen. I believe the .deb will be installed normally into /target/ and display the license question at that point, but do not know yet. :) > I can see that others may want to do things differently, but I'm not > sure how much we can/should support that in standard D-I > functionality. I'm working on a patch for hw-detect. > One option you have is to implement a custom, alternative version of > 'mountmedia' for d-edu. Actually, something causes main-menu to crash if I adjust mountmedia to return CD devices too, so I suspect it is better to adjust check-missing-firmware to also look in /cdrom/firmware/ for debs. This is the approach I am testing at the moment. Anyone know how the PXE installation can be adjusted to load firmware automatically from the .debs? I want servers with network cards needing firmware to work with PXE installation. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100316114835.gc4...@login1.uio.no
