Package: installation-reports Boot method: netinstall, dd'ed to USB stick, text mode
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta4/i386/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b4-i386-netinst.iso Date: 25-NOV-2012 20:00 GMT Machine: Toshiba Satellite A100 Processor: Intel Core2 duo Memory: 3GByte Partitions: for Windows XP, Xubuntu and swap Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [0] Detect network card: [E/O] (see below) Configure network: [0] Detect CD: [0] Load installer modules: [0] Detect hard drives: [0] Partition hard drives: [0] Install base system: [0] Clock/timezone setup: [0] User/password setup: [0] Install tasks: [0] Install boot loader: [O] Overall install: [O] Comments/Problems: This time, I tried to install through WLAN, which requires iwlwifi-3945 firmware. I tried to provide it in a second partition of the USB stick used for the installation, or on a second USB stick, but the installer did not find it. Only after I manually mounted the stick,the firmware was found and loaded, and the rest of the installation, like the WLAN configuration and the XFCE desktop, went like a charm. Great! Googling for "debian installation firmware" turned up lots of pages with mostly contradicting information how to provide the firmware, so I tied archives: deb, tar, and zip, and the unpacked firmware files iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode and iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode, on a vfat or ext2 file system, in the root directory of the stick or in a subdirectory named "firmware". In the log, there were warnings about utf-8 not being an appropriate mount option for vfat, when the installer tried to mount various partitions (sdb1, sdb2) and the device sdb itself, but did not find the firmware. Thanks for the good work Herbert -- -- 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/20121128014026.4264c80f@max
