Bug#778614: D-I: Unable to load firmware from NTFS formated usb stick
Package: debian-installer
Version: 8.0 beta
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
A few days ago I tried to install Debian Jessie using "Debian GNU/Linux testing
"Jessie" - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20150209-06:32" disk.
Network card require non-free firmware to work (d-i unable to detect network
hardware without it) so I inserted NTFS formated usb stick with needed firmware
(/firmware). But seems NTFS is not supported so I was unable to proceed.
Why not to add support for NTFS for loading missing firmware? As I know kernel
already have support for reading NTFS volumes.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-686-pae (SMP w/4 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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