On Tue, 2016-06-21 at 17:29 +0300, George Vasiliou (GMAIL) wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > Hi there, > I would like to mention a kind of bug in your net-install iso image. > > When tried to install Debian on my net book (Toshiba Radius 11 L10WC10C) > using the debian-8.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso image i got the following error: > > Installer was prompting me to provide proprietary drivers for > rtlwifi/rtl8723befw.bin. This is firmware, not a driver. And unfortunately, it is non-free, so it cannot be included in Debian (officially). > As a new user that i thought to try Debian, i didn't had this driver to > feed the installer and as a resut the installation made was a basic one > without internet connection. > > Although i succeed to find this driver on web, i was not capable to make > the installer load this rtl8723 driver. > Maybe a kind of typical file browser within the Debian Installer could be a > good idea, to allow me to drive Debian Installer to where this driver file > is. > > On the other hand consider a new user trying to test Debian, and the whole > thing collapses for a missing driver (while other distros like Ubuntu > provide that driver out-of-the-box). This explains how to include the non-free firmware you need: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s04.html.en Ben. -- Ben Hutchings [W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. ... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice Wilkes, 1949
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