On Thursday, July 29th, 2021 at 6:58 AM, tito via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:26:07 +0000 > g4sra via Dng dng@lists.dyne.org wrote: > > <--snip--> > > This is why Devuan's installer will ask\prompt you to insert additional > > installation media such as a USB stick. > > Hi > > The user most of the time doesn't even know which driver or firmware blob he > needs so this is not a solution > (unless you know how to scan dmesg...to spot the trouble). > > Better would be to tell them: > 1. minimal install, netinstall isos/usb images are for advanced users as > they could miss firmware/drivers and you are on your own. > 2. full install CD/DVD/usb images contain all available firmware/drivers and > give best results (plus initial opt out of non-free stuff defaulting to: I > want it) Note the line following in my original text > > There are just too many Gigabytes of Drivers required to satisfy every > > corner case, You would need to put Drivers and Firmware for every network device in existence on the installation media. > > put the drivers your quirky hardware requires on a USB stick and use it > > when prompted! > > I do not ever want to have to install an OS from 31 removable media's ever > > again! (Windows NT anybody?). >
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