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Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation



On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> wrote:

> So I was wondering what the state is of everything, and what
> issues people will run into, specially when installing.

The lenny installer is fine, I haven't tested the squeeze installer yet though.

> I'm also wondering what people think about adding some firmware
> to our official installation media.

I don't think it is needed.

I recently had to install Debian lenny on a HP ProLiant machine, which
required bnx2 firmware for the network controller. Just downloaded the
firmware .deb from packages.d.o, stuck it on a FAT32 formatted USB
stick and everything worked fine.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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