Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 01:05:19PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> On 05/10/2010 08:33 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Freitag, 7. Mai 2010, Paul Wise wrote:
> >> What makes it problematic to modify the install media (initrd I guess)
> >> you downloaded and add the firmware?
> >
> > For quite some people it's very difficult (hi bro!), for some it's impossible
> > (hi dad!) and for most of the rest it's a PITA (hi me!). And, for another
> > tiny fraction it is easy and smells like freedom.
> >
> > Maybe we should really provide two sets of Debian install media for
> > squeeze, "pure Debian" and "Debian with non-free firmwarez included". Then,
> > after two releases we can look at the download statistics and see, if we want
> > to continue that...
>
> +1 from me!
I also think this is the way forward, provided the non-free images are
seperated on cdimage.debian.org from the free ones in some way that
makes it e.g. easy for mirror admins to not include them (I don't say
they shouldn't).
Michael
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