Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com):
> Finally I went ahead without the firmware files and installed the
> Debian 8.0. And now it's working just fine! Perhaps due to the fact
> that I selected the mirror and fetched packages from Internet (using
> Ethernet) during installation.
>
> My adv
On Fri 01 May 2015 at 14:49:10 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 01 May 2015 14:04:29 Brian wrote:
> > The unofficial installer (netinst + non-free firmware) was put together
> > with the aim of avoiding having people drive a long way in the hot sun
> > or turning the house upside down looking
On Fri 01 May 2015 at 09:21:19 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 02:04:29PM +0100, Brian wrote:
>
> > The unofficial installer (netinst + non-free firmware) was put together
> > with the aim of avoiding having people drive a long way in the hot sun
> > or turning the house up
On Fri 01 May 2015 at 19:17:55 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 01 May 2015 at 18:43:17 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Brian wrote:
> >>
> >> > It is disappointing that the advice in the Installation
On Friday 01 May 2015 14:04:29 Brian wrote:
> The unofficial installer (netinst + non-free firmware) was put together
> with the aim of avoiding having people drive a long way in the hot sun
> or turning the house upside down looking for a network card. The choice
> to use it exists.
Of course! I
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 01 May 2015 at 18:43:17 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Brian wrote:
>>
>> > It is disappointing that the advice in the Installation Guide did not
>> > work for you. However, all is not lost.
>> >
>> > It wa
On Fri 01 May 2015 at 18:43:17 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Brian wrote:
>
> > It is disappointing that the advice in the Installation Guide did not
> > work for you. However, all is not lost.
> >
> > It was mentioned earlier that the image has a second partit
On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 02:04:29PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> The unofficial installer (netinst + non-free firmware) was put together
> with the aim of avoiding having people drive a long way in the hot sun
> or turning the house upside down looking for a network card. The choice
> to use it exists.
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Brian wrote:
> It is disappointing that the advice in the Installation Guide did not
> work for you. However, all is not lost.
>
> It was mentioned earlier that the image has a second partition which
> could be used for holding firmware files. Unfortunately, the sp
On Fri 01 May 2015 at 18:23:51 +1000, Charlie wrote:
> On Fri, 1 May 2015 09:07:44 +0100 Lisi Reisz sent:
>
> > > My advice will be : Do not try to use firmware files at the time of
> > > installation.
> >
> > I echo that!
> >
> > > In short though official Debian Installation Guide discusses
On Fri 01 May 2015 at 09:13:00 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
> Finally I went ahead without the firmware files and installed the
> Debian 8.0. And now it's working just fine! Perhaps due to the fact
> that I selected the mirror and fetched packages from Internet (using
> Ethernet) during installa
On Friday 01 May 2015 09:23:51 Charlie wrote:
> It's always been a "phew" moment, heaps of stress and always a question
> of: "will it work", till it's done.
Yes - I realised that I chickened out. I tried. But once it got stressful, I
just said "oh, blow this!" and reached for an old network ca
On Fri, 1 May 2015 09:07:44 +0100 Lisi Reisz sent:
> > My advice will be : Do not try to use firmware files at the time of
> > installation.
>
> I echo that!
>
> > In short though official Debian Installation Guide discusses about
> > loading the firmware files alongside the Debian installatio
On Friday 01 May 2015 04:43:00 Avinash Sonawane wrote:
> Finally I went ahead without the firmware files and installed the
> Debian 8.0. And now it's working just fine! Perhaps due to the fact
> that I selected the mirror and fetched packages from Internet (using
> Ethernet) during installation.
>
Finally I went ahead without the firmware files and installed the
Debian 8.0. And now it's working just fine! Perhaps due to the fact
that I selected the mirror and fetched packages from Internet (using
Ethernet) during installation.
My advice will be : Do not try to use firmware files at the time
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com):
> I have made another USB port working so now I am using 2 USB sticks.
> One as debian 8.0 installation media and another to hold firmware .deb
> packages.
>
> But when I try to load the drivers in one of the installation steps it says:
> "Detected re
Present Situation:
I have made another USB port working so now I am using 2 USB sticks.
One as debian 8.0 installation media and another to hold firmware .deb
packages.
But when I try to load the drivers in one of the installation steps it says:
"Detected removable media that is not a known drive
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Brian wrote:
> Do we assume the firmware files on the FAT partition are .deb packages?
> Do you have an existing linux installation?
Yes. all firmware files are .deb packages and yes currently I am using Ubuntu.
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Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com):
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:26 PM, David Wright
> wrote:
> > Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com):
> >> I am trying to install Debian 8.0 on my system. While installing it
> >> reported some firmware being missing (more specifically
> >> brcm/
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com):
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:50 PM, David Wright
> wrote:
>
> > But my workaround (to reduce bandwidth as much as I could) would be to
> > install with firmware-netinst as far as the first reboot and then use
> > the DVD you've got from then on.
>
>
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com):
> A new development:
>
> Now I have managed to create a separate FAT partition using fdisk
> which is holding the
> firmware files. The reason why earlier I couldn't is because I used
> default block values from fdisk.
>
> Start partition at block mo
On Wed 29 Apr 2015 at 21:43:21 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
> A new development:
>
> Now I have managed to create a separate FAT partition using fdisk
> which is holding the
> firmware files. The reason why earlier I couldn't is because I used
> default block values from fdisk.
>
> Start part
Curt wrote:
> Is it just me or is the option to install an alternative desktop
> environment missing from the advanced options of both amd64 netinstall
> isos ( official and firmware-unofficial)?
The desktop option has been added to the tasksel stage. It is a
better place for it.
# tasksel -t
On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:50 PM, David Wright
> wrote:
>
> But then won't Debian will be downloading all the packages from
> internet while installing from netinst image? Can I use the existing
> amd64 dvd1 iso then? (instead of downloading packages extra
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:50 PM, David Wright wrote:
> But my workaround (to reduce bandwidth as much as I could) would be to
> install with firmware-netinst as far as the first reboot and then use
> the DVD you've got from then on.
But then won't Debian will be downloading all the packages from
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com):
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Curt wrote:
> > On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm not sure which iso you downloaded. If it was the netinst version
> >>> from https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/
> >>> take a
On 2015-04-29, Curt wrote:
>>
>
> Yes, you have the official iso, but in order to obviate the difficulties
> you're encountering, David is saying you have the option of downloading the
> unofficial iso with the firmware included (that way you're off and
> running to the races without further ado).
A new development:
Now I have managed to create a separate FAT partition using fdisk
which is holding the
firmware files. The reason why earlier I couldn't is because I used
default block values from fdisk.
Start partition at block more that size of iso - #debian IRC
Now installer to begins smo
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Curt wrote:
> On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure which iso you downloaded. If it was the netinst version
>>> from https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/
>>> take a look further down the page where there's a panel with a r
On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure which iso you downloaded. If it was the netinst version
>> from https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/
>> take a look further down the page where there's a panel with a red
>> cross. Here you can get the netinst iso with f
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:26 PM, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com):
>> I am trying to install Debian 8.0 on my system. While installing it
>> reported some firmware being missing (more specifically
>> brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) so I downloaded the firmware files from
>> ht
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com):
> I am trying to install Debian 8.0 on my system. While installing it
> reported some firmware being missing (more specifically
> brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) so I downloaded the firmware files from
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware
Hi! Debian n00b here!
I am trying to install Debian 8.0 on my system. While installing it
reported some firmware being missing (more specifically
brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) so I downloaded the firmware files from
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/jessie/current/
I am using US
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