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Re: pxeinstall fails if network card requires nonfree firmware



On Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2012, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Perhaps we should call auto-addfirmware during installation?  I am
> reluctant to do so, as it will silently add an non-free APT source, and
> I suspect using non-free software should be a decition left to the local
> admin.  On the other hand, our DVD and CD images include all the
> firmware packages and this firmware will be used automatically if it is
> needed on the machine being installed.
> 
> I guess we should clean up the scripts and make them have consistent
> behaviour, but that can wait for Wheezy, I believe.

yes.

documenting how to do this manually is what we should do for Squeeze.


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