Re: how to download the packages in Debian testing non-free before installing?
Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2012-01-18 20:58 +0100, lee wrote:
Hi,
how do I download the packages in the non-free section and make them
useable by the Debian installer before starting the installation?
Download any needed packages on another computer and put them on a USB
stick that you plug in when you install Debian. See
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s04.html.
Unfortunately, I don´t have another computer available, and the laptop
is setup so badly from factory with Windoze that I will have to remove
Windoze completely because I can´t shrink the partition to a reasonable
size. And they didn´t deliver any installation media with it :((
If the installation fails, I will have to restore the laptop from the
backups I made on DVDs, download whatever I need and start over again.
So I want to make sure the installation doesn´t fail before I start.
The problem is installing Debian on a laptop with wireless only. So I
need to dowload all the DVDs before starting the installation,
No, you don't. The first DVD (or CD) should be sufficient.
Will I be able to get the wireless working with the first DVD before
making any changes to the hard disks?
and
still the software needed to get the wirless card (Intel Centrino
Wireless-N
1030) working is in the non-free section which won´t be on the DVDs[1].
There seem to be (unofficial) CD-images with the firmware on
them[2]. Are these the right ones to get? What might be the best way
to go about this?
On [2] you only find the firmware which you have to put on a USB stick.
There are also netinst CD images which already include the firmware
under
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/,
those also have the minimally necessary packages for setting up WiFi, in
particular wpasupplicant.
Hm, what´s the point in having the firmware only and not the software to
get the wireless card to work? Apparently, I need software from the
non-free section which isn´t included on the DVDs, so having the
firmware only get´s me no more than like half the way.
The Squeeze installer itself does not support WPA, but the Wheezy
installer does.
Wheezy is Testing, afair? I want to install Testing anyway: Will that
work with the D/I from testing when I have the firmware ready, or will
there still be software (from non-free) missing needed to make a
wireless connection?
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