Re: Making Debian available - patch for webwml

2021-01-29 Thread Debian/GNU
On 1/29/21 1:44 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Holger, On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 10:53:54AM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: FYI: a patch has been applied in the meantime, adding such hint to nearly all d.o pages, which have links to download images [eg] www.debian.org/distrib/ to make users aware of

Re: -1 (Re: Making Debian available)

2021-01-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Paul wrote: > >During install, the installer asks if you have a disk with drivers on >for this closed hardware, I don't know what it wants at this point. > >If we could insert a 2nd usb disk, or anything with the correct drivers >on, it may help. Argh. Pet peeve. It asks for a disk with *firmwa

Re: Making Debian available, non-free promotor

2021-01-29 Thread Yao Wei
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 01:38:24PM +0100, Ansgar wrote: > Yao Wei writes: > >> We encourage you to get devices that respects your freedom. > > Should this message also be shown when non-free firmware is preinstalled > in the system for educational purposes? > > Or do devices that have pre-install

Re: Making Debian available - patch for webwml

2021-01-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Holger, On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 10:53:54AM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > FYI: a patch has been applied in the meantime, adding such hint to nearly all > d.o pages, which have links to download images [eg] > www.debian.org/distrib/ > to make users aware of those images. very cool, thank you ve

Re: Making Debian available, non-free promotor

2021-01-29 Thread Ansgar
Yao Wei writes: > At then, we can let users download the missing drivers from the > generated webpage, like the following: > >> Additional packages for the network interface >> == >> >> As Debian is the universal operating system, we consider both users >> and free software important. However,

Re: Making Debian available, non-free promotor

2021-01-29 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Paul Sutton wrote: > > > On 29/01/2021 03:23, Yao Wei wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Could there be the way that, with installer unable to connect to the > > internet, it detects the list of missing blobs, and generate a webpage > > in the thumb drive, and let user plug in another flash drive to d

Re: Making Debian available, non-free promotor

2021-01-29 Thread Paul Sutton
On 29/01/2021 03:23, Yao Wei wrote: Hi, Could there be the way that, with installer unable to connect to the internet, it detects the list of missing blobs, and generate a webpage in the thumb drive, and let user plug in another flash drive to download them. I agree with this idea, it would