Hi, and thanks for your report. allan grossman <wizard10000@gmail.com> (2014-09-13): > Package: installation-reports > Severity: important > Tags: d-i > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > * What led up to the situation? > > Clean install of Jessie. Used dd to copy > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware > /weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-jessie-DI-b1-amd64-netinst.iso > > to a 4gb flasn drive. Command used was > > dd bs=4M if=/path/to/image.iso of=/dev/sdb && sync > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > > Installer fails to find non-free firmware on the flash drive. > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > I expected the installer to find the firmware on its own media. What *did* > work was extracting the firmware tarball to /firmware on a *second* flash drive > and inserting that drive before starting the installer. > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > I expected the installer to find the firmware without having to insert a second > flash drive with firmware alone to complete the install. I'm not familiar with the cd-including-firmware image(s), but I'd like to point out that firmware support isn't exactly supposed to be working nicely, see first item in errata: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata (In a nutshell d-i no longer is notified that firmware is missing, so might fail to try and find them; if the kernel finds its firmware on its own, things should work though.) I'm currently working on debugging wireless issues; trying to restore firmware support should be next. Mraw, KiBi.
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