Am 05.12.2017 um 05:34 schrieb Paul Wise: > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 12:34 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> Yes, I've never managed to get d-i to find firmware I've put on a USB >> myself, and always resorted to this approach. I never got around to >> reading the source to figure out where it expects to look (nor to >> improve the docs etc.) > > The docs say to dump firmware files or packages on a USB stick: > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s04.html.en > > To prepare a USB stick (or other medium like a hard drive partition, > or floppy disk), the firmware files or packages must be placed in > either the root directory or a directory named /firmware of the file > system on the medium. The recommended file system to use is FAT as > that is most certain to be supported during the early stages of the > installation.
Last time I tried, neither of those worked. But I was too busy back then to further investigate or report a bug and went with the full non-free iso. Cheers jonas
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