On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 04:12:02PM -0700, Birzhan Amirov wrote: > Hello Debian CD Images team. > > I decided to switch to the latest version (12.1.0), and encountered the > following issues: > > 1) Looks like this DVD image: > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/ > > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-12.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso > which is supposed to be Free Software only, actually contains 3rd party > non-free firmware. > The way I discovered it was that my 6th gen Lenovo ThinkPad x1 carbon wifi > card started working, while with 11.6 and prior it didn't have the firmware > and was disabled because of that. >
Hi, Debian has had a full General Resolution on this and resolved to include non-free firmware as part of the installer, especially because without this you cannot install Debian on some hardware if you need sound, for example. https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003 > This image is labeled as > "Debian GNU/Linux 12.1.0 _Bookworm_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with > firmware 20230722-10:49". > Was there some kind of mistake when publishing the images? > This is not a mistake: see also the release notes for 12. This is a change from Debian 11. https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/releasenotes > 2) Also, when I tried to download this disk [DVD-1] using jigdo, I ended up > getting an image of the first disk that wasn't bootable. > Can you show us where you got the jigdo files from, please? > Thanks and Regards, John Amirov. All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater
