Re: Squeeze install on HP DL380G4 with broadcom network.

[Tixy <debianuser@yxit.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 14:29 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> With the non-free exclusions from the iso [1], installation wasn't 
> possible without taking further steps.  Not sure this non-free image 
> thing is a good idea(tm) -- perhaps images WITH the non-free drivers 
> need to be made easily available, if not, I can see many people 
> abandoning Debian to use something "easier" to install.

I saw this discussed a while ago on the debian-project mailing list [1],
and there are now netinst iso images with non-free firmware available at
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/


[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/05/msg00117.html


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