On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 03:58:35PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >[Steve McIntyre] >> Yup, definitely. We already have an "unofficial non-free" area on >> cdimage.debian.org which is where we've been pushing the firmware >> zip/tar.gz files already. I'll set up the extra images to be dropped >> in there. > >A few days ago, I extended hw-detect to look for firmware (u)debs in >/firmware/ (for PXE boot images) and /cdrom/firmware/, so if you >create a CD/DVD with the firmware .deb files in a firmware/ directory >in the root of the CD, it should work out of the box. Any license >question asked in the package preinst should be displayed, and the >firmware package will not be used if the license isn't accepted. The >change is in the daily built d-i images already. Please report back >if it do not work for you.
Yup, will do. :-) >> I'm guessing that we're not likely to want the extra images for all >> architectures: i386/amd64/powerpc(?). Any others? > >I have no idea. I only use i386 and amd64. :) Quite. Anybody else? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. -- 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/20100524154626.gj4...@einval.com
