Le 28/11/2021 à 23:07, Adam Baxter a écrit :

Maybe it'd be worth having an option to allow a user to tether a mobile phone 
via USB to grab the firmware online.

This is automatic if the phone emulates a USB-ethernet adapter.

Perhaps the prompt should say "We can download the firmware automatically if you are 
able to use an alternative connection, such as mobile tethering", although I wonder 
how this would work for non-free firmware.

Sorry, there was a misunderstanding. I meant that a tethered phone can be used as a network interface to download packages during the installation, but not to download firmware for the installer itself.

Also, a cdrom: entry was added to sources.list even though I installed from USB.

Because both contain the same ISO image so have the same data structure.
But Debian was looking for these files at /media/cdrom - would the installation 
USB be re-mounted at this location?

Not automatically (unless you create an appropriate udev rule or fstab entry), but you can do it manually.

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