Bug#939071: 6.4 Load Missing Firmware should mention unpacking zip/tar

2019-09-02 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Hi, On 02/09/19 16:10, Baptiste Jammet wrote: [...] I don't think the installation guide must cover the "how to use a zip archive" case, but it can maybe suggest to use an external soft and that firmaware files are *.deb. Debian includes unzip, why not include it ? For example, in install

Bug#939071: 6.4 Load Missing Firmware should mention unpacking zip/tar

2019-09-02 Thread Baptiste Jammet
Hi Joey, Dixit Joey Hess, le 31/08/2019 : >The instructions assume that the user will unpack the zip or tarball >they download, but they don't say to do so. The section you mention says (https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/ch06s04.en.html) : >Just download the tarball or zip file for t

Bug#939071: 6.4 Load Missing Firmware should mention unpacking zip/tar

2019-08-31 Thread Joey Hess
Source: installation-guide Severity: normal I recently had cause to re-read https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/ch06s04.en.html and tried to follow the instructions, and I ended up with a firmware.zip on a FAT filesystem, which d-i is not able to find firmware in. The instructions assum