Which is where I'm aiming this. I use the unofficial live versions as installation media because they install packages from local (USB) media in less time that the network install, and I've used them for years now. They work fine, and the 15 minutes for local package installation versus an hour to install across the 'Net is QUITE attractive.
It's only been recently (about a year, I guess), that I've been using the unofficial live xfce image (with the nonfree support included) to try and install on two laptops. The images install just fine over ethernet, and everything hardware related works right after the install. Better results over using the netinst images, adding nonfree, and getting wifi to work fine. I'm moving to installing over wifi, now (with the nonfree support in use for wifi drivers FOR INSTALL) and it loops on installation at the four steps described: specify interface, agree to license, specify wifi network, specify security, provide key, loop to specify wifi network, and repeat over and over again. It does it IIRC on all the installation images, so the bug is common to all four <?> images. I'm using 8.8.0, live, xfce, plus nonfree repository. On 06/19/2017 02:07 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 04:39:17PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 06:48:11PM -0700, Charles Chambers wrote: >>> Has anyone else tried to install 9.0 over WiFi yet? I have two laptops >>> that require the nonfree repositories for wifi drivers, but the live DVDs >>> for 8.x have issues with installing over WiFi. >> The official installer does not include non-free, so if your wifi requires >> that, you will have to supply the firmware on a usb key or something when >> the installer needs it, or by using a non-free installer image instead >> (which probably only exists for netinst, not the live images). >> >> No, there are *unofficial* non-free versions of the live images >> available too, for exactly this purpose. >>
