Control: severity -1 normal On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 17:31 +0300, Andrey Tataranovich wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:13:30 +0000 > Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > > Control: severity -1 wishlist > > > > On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 16:55 +0300, Andrey Tataranovich wrote: > > > 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. > > > > NTFS is special because it is not a user-space filesystem. > > > > And Windows does not allow formatting removable drives as NTFS, so > > this is not a normal filesystem to use on removable drives. Reducing > > the severity accordingly. > > > > Ben. > > > > Ben, Windows 7 (and maybe never versions) allow to format usb stick to > NTFS: http://gyazo.com/fd4cb1b46667dabdbdd3a2fcdb59d2c3 > > so I believe we need to support NTFS for loading missing firmware. Sorry, I never noticed that this had changed. I disagree with 'need', but that does seem to make this higher severity than wishlist. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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