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Package: installation-reports
Boot method: netinstall, dd'ed to USB stick, text mode
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta4/i386/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b4-i386-netinst.iso
Date: 25-NOV-2012 20:00 GMT
Machine: Toshiba Satellite A100
Processor: Intel Core2 duo
Memory: 3GByte
Partitions: for Windows XP, Xubuntu and swap
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [0]
Detect network card: [E/O] (see below)
Configure network: [0]
Detect CD: [0]
Load installer modules: [0]
Detect hard drives: [0]
Partition hard drives: [0]
Install base system: [0]
Clock/timezone setup: [0]
User/password setup: [0]
Install tasks: [0]
Install boot loader: [O]
Overall install: [O]
Comments/Problems:
This time, I tried to install through WLAN, which requires iwlwifi-3945
firmware. I tried to provide it in a second partition of the USB stick
used for the installation, or on a second USB stick, but the installer
did not find it. Only after I manually mounted the stick,the firmware
was found and loaded, and the rest of the installation, like the WLAN
configuration and the XFCE desktop, went like a charm. Great!
Googling for "debian installation firmware" turned up lots of pages
with mostly contradicting information how to provide the firmware, so
I tied archives: deb, tar, and zip, and the unpacked firmware files
iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode and iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode, on a vfat or ext2 file
system, in the root directory of the stick or in a subdirectory
named "firmware". In the log, there were warnings about utf-8 not being
an appropriate mount option for vfat, when the installer tried to mount
various partitions (sdb1, sdb2) and the device sdb itself, but did not
find the firmware.
Thanks for the good work
Herbert
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