Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-21 Thread ninja
On 2014-02-18 06:57, Stefan Baur wrote: Am 18.02.2014 12:51, schrieb Ben Armstrong: Are we just going to argue about this unceasingly or will you please just take our word for it? Well, instead of assuming that he's saying you're a bunch of liars, it might help to explain the technical and con

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 18 February 2014 16:36, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 02/17/2014 10:38 PM, ni...@cock.li wrote: >> Question: how can I reconcile the above datum with, "because there's >> currently no debian-installer in jessie"? > Finally, on the matter of finding snapshots of old installer images that > might wo

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 02/17/2014 10:38 PM, ni...@cock.li wrote: > Question: how can I reconcile the above datum with, "because there's > currently no debian-installer in jessie"? By the way, since this has apparently also been misunderstood by Stefan as "there are no Jessie installer images", and he suggested I "exp

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 02/18/2014 08:35 AM, Stefan Baur wrote: > If you don't know the answer yourself, or feel that this question is > inappropriate on this mailing list as it has nothing to do with > debian-live any more, an option would be to suggest re-asking the > question on, say, the debian-user mailing list.

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-18 Thread Stefan Baur
[ a lot snipped ] Ben, I suggest you step away from the computer, take a 15-minute walk , or get a nice cup of tea. Calm down. Seriously. You being annoyed and writing in that tone helps neither the user that asked the question, nor the project, nor your health and sanity. After you've calmed do

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 02/18/2014 07:57 AM, Stefan Baur wrote: > Am 18.02.2014 12:51, schrieb Ben Armstrong: >> Are we just going to argue about this unceasingly or will you please >> just take our word for it? > > Well, instead of assuming that he's saying you're a bunch of liars, No. I think he's saying we don't k

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-18 Thread Stefan Baur
Am 18.02.2014 12:51, schrieb Ben Armstrong: > Are we just going to argue about this unceasingly or will you please > just take our word for it? Well, instead of assuming that he's saying you're a bunch of liars, it might help to explain the technical and conceptual background to him as well as to

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 02/17/2014 10:38 PM, ni...@cock.li wrote: > I revisit this with an added datum and a question. > > Datum: In late December I installed Debian Jessie from an official CD. The word "official" means nothing in this context. Debian has made no releases of the installer. The developers do, however

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/18/2014 03:38 AM, ni...@cock.li wrote: > I installed Debian Jessie from an official CD. [...] It installed Jessie. as said, there is no installer in jessie, use the installer from sid or use installer daily builds on your jessie live image. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-17 Thread ninja
On 2014-02-10 00:57, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/09/2014 06:14 PM, ni...@cock.li wrote: So, a file not found? I tested by passing that URL to wget and it could not the file, either. because there's currently no debian-installer in jessie, use sid or daily in the meanwhile. -- Address:

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-14 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 14/02/14 08:48 PM, ni...@cock.li wrote: > > 1) If there is no Debian Testing (Jessie) installer, than how are people > > installing Jessie? > > Install Wheezy with the Wheezy installer and upgrade to Jessie. > > > 2) If I were

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 14/02/14 08:48 PM, ni...@cock.li wrote: > 1) If there is no Debian Testing (Jessie) installer, than how are people > installing Jessie? Install Wheezy with the Wheezy installer and upgrade to Jessie. > 2) If I were to build a sid or daily livecd with an installer, would it > install Testing/Je

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-14 Thread ninja
On 2014-02-10 00:57, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/09/2014 06:14 PM, ni...@cock.li wrote: So, a file not found? I tested by passing that URL to wget and it could not the file, either. because there's currently no debian-installer in jessie, use sid or daily in the meanwhile. -- Address:

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-09 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/09/2014 06:14 PM, ni...@cock.li wrote: > So, a file not found? I tested by passing that URL to wget and it could > not the file, either. because there's currently no debian-installer in jessie, use sid or daily in the meanwhile. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-09 Thread Michael .
The file not found is not the problem with your wifi. The file not found could be because Debian is part way through a repository update. Wait a day and try again. On 10 February 2014 04:14, wrote: > On 2014-02-07 21:55, Richard Nelson wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:37 P

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-09 Thread ninja
On 2014-02-07 21:55, Richard Nelson wrote: Greetings, On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:37 PM, wrote: On 2014-02-06 13:36, Richard Nelson wrote: Greetings, On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:31 PM, wrote:         In late December I installed a dual-boot system of Debian Testing and Windows 7.  Since the Deb

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-08 Thread ninja
On 2014-02-07 21:55, Richard Nelson wrote: Greetings, On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:37 PM, wrote: On 2014-02-06 13:36, Richard Nelson wrote: Greetings, On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:31 PM, wrote:         In late December I installed a dual-boot system of Debian Testing and Windows 7.  Since the Deb

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-07 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:37 PM, wrote: > On 2014-02-06 13:36, Richard Nelson wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:31 PM, wrote: >> >> In late December I installed a dual-boot system of >>> Debian >>> Testing and Windows 7. Since the Debian installer CD/DV

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-06 Thread Michael .
Put this line in your config to enable non-free firmware in your Live session --firmware-chroot "true"\ On 7 February 2014 05:36, Richard Nelson wrote: > > Greetings, > > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:31 PM, wrote: > >> In late December I installed a dual-boot system of Debian >> Testing

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-06 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:31 PM, wrote: > In late December I installed a dual-boot system of Debian > Testing and Windows 7. Since the Debian installer CD/DVD did not have > wifi, I had to take the machine over to where I could access a cable > connection. I had previously a

trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-05 Thread ninja
In late December I installed a dual-boot system of Debian Testing and Windows 7. Since the Debian installer CD/DVD did not have wifi, I had to take the machine over to where I could access a cable connection. I had previously ascertained the wifi card and made sure to install the appropr