On 06/13/2017 07:35 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2017, Cyril Brulebois wrote:3. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installerI suggest that we add to this page something like this: "Outdated system firmware (BIOS, UEFI, etc) may result in severe misbehavior while installing Debian. Before you attempt to install, it is strongly recommended to update the system firmware to the latest release available at the system vendor's support site. This is especially relevant for systems based on Intel or AMD processors, but it is also important for other systems." It should also be added to the "Installation HOWTO" and "Release Notes", I suppose.
If I were a first time user and saw a paragraph like that WITHOUT a link to details I would have no idea whether it applied to me or how to install Debian with minimal risk.
I consider myself closer to "newbie" than "expert" as I first saw Linux when Squeeze was current. I believe all my computers have had Intel processors and I know all use BIOS firmware. I've installed the i386 flavor of Debian on all without any hardware related problems. Somewhere I have a laptop that's likely a decade old which I could make a trial install of Stretch later this week if that would be useful. This is being typed on a used laptop I believe is ~5 years old with Stretch w/o problems.