Thanks to all who answered about broadcom firmware

2015-04-17 Thread Hans dinsen-hansen
Dear lknoppix and debian user*s list. Thank you for all your answers. There is enough for a partly blind and very old man (79) to work through in the next week. Linux is quite different from the open system, I am used to be on. I have noticed that Linux uses several partitions on the disk, wher

Re: Subject: firmware for broadcom drivers.

2015-04-17 Thread Fabricio Cannini
On 17-04-2015 06:33, Hans dinsen-hansen wrote: I am an old NetBSD-user, and have decided to scrap my Windows partitions. I have tried several Linux versions. Only two of them had some kind of success. Debian 7.8.0 and KNOPPIX 7.4.2. The Debian CD wanted me to find the firmware b43/ucode15.fw

Re: Subject: firmware for broadcom drivers.

2015-04-17 Thread Jeffery Mewtamer
0wn is indeed the program you're looking for to install Knoppix to hard-drive, though it has many shortcomings compared to the Debian Installer, including, but not limited to: -No easy way of setting up a separate home partition or wiping just a root partition from an old Linux install and using a

Re: Subject: firmware for broadcom drivers.

2015-04-17 Thread Pierre Deom
On 04/17/2015 05:33 AM, Hans dinsen-hansen wrote: > I would best like to use Knoppix as my base-system, but I cannot find > out how to transfer its boot version to my hard disk. All I find on > the internet are explanations on how to transfer earlier versions of > Knoppix as boot-loadable version

Re: Subject: firmware for broadcom drivers.

2015-04-17 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:33:12AM +0200, Hans dinsen-hansen wrote: > I am an old NetBSD-user, and have decided to scrap my Windows > partitions. I have tried several Linux versions. Only two of them > had some kind of success. Debian 7.8.0 and KNOPPIX 7.4.2. The > Debian CD wanted me to find

Subject: firmware for broadcom drivers.

2015-04-17 Thread Hans dinsen-hansen
I am an old NetBSD-user, and have decided to scrap my Windows partitions. I have tried several Linux versions. Only two of them had some kind of success. Debian 7.8.0 and KNOPPIX 7.4.2. The Debian CD wanted me to find the firmware b43/ucode15.fw and b43-open/ucode15.fw. I have in vain tried t