Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-06-07 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Kurt Roeckx [2010-05-24 16:43:23 CEST]: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 02:13:30PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Yup, definitely. We already have an "unofficial non-free" area on > > cdimage.debian.org which is where we've been pushing the firmware > > zip/tar.gz files already. I'll set up the extr

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 04:43:23PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: >On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 02:13:30PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Yup, definitely. We already have an "unofficial non-free" area on >> cdimage.debian.org which is where we've been pushing the firmware >> zip/tar.gz files already. I'll s

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 03:58:35PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >[Steve McIntyre] >> Yup, definitely. We already have an "unofficial non-free" area on >> cdimage.debian.org which is where we've been pushing the firmware >> zip/tar.gz files already. I'll set up the extra images to be dropped

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
Steve McIntyre schrieb am Monday, den 24. May 2010: Hi, *snip* > >> I'm guessing that we're not likely to want the extra images for all > >> architectures: i386/amd64/powerpc(?). Any others? > > > >I have no idea. I only use i386 and amd64. :) > > Quite. Anybody else? I think we should also in

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-24 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 02:13:30PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Yup, definitely. We already have an "unofficial non-free" area on > cdimage.debian.org which is where we've been pushing the firmware > zip/tar.gz files already. I'll set up the extra images to be dropped > in there. It would be nic

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:33:11AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >Early on in this thread [1] I've tried to identify our options, which >essentially boil down to: > >1) have the non-free firmware on the (first) install media, "protected" > by a BIG FAT WARNING saying that you need non-free f

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 06:29:55PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > So I was wondering what the state is of everything, and what > issues people will run into, specially when installing. So, let me try to wrap-up this discussion. I've gather some info from Ben Hutchings (thanks!) on the actual impact o