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Bug#502912: marked as done (debian-installer: mounting fat32 system broken, needs "modprobe vfat" first)

Your message dated Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:03:17 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#502912: debian-installer: mounting fat32 system broken, needs "modprobe vfat" first
has caused the Debian Bug report #502912,
regarding debian-installer: mounting fat32 system broken, needs "modprobe vfat" first
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Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal

I needed to have ipw2100 firmware, so I switched to console, and typed
"mkdir /mnt/disk" then "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk" but it gave a really
impossible-to-understand error, nothing to do with vfat. I realised
that all it needed was "modprobe vfat". I have USB keys formatted to
fat32 due to windows-compatibility.

As a side-note, the directory /lib/firmware does *not* exist, and there
is no textual indication where the firmware should be placed. I just
guessed it had to be at /lib/firmware. The "/lib/firmware" should exist,
and the interface should make it clear that if the firmware is manually installed,
it should be placed there.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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On Monday 20 October 2008, Mate Soos wrote:
> I needed to have ipw2100 firmware, so I switched to console, and typed
> "mkdir /mnt/disk" then "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk"

Current versions of D-I (daily built images and RC1 when it is released) 
support loading firmware in a more structured way. See the installation 
guide [1] for details.

[1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch02s02.html
    http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s04.html

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