Re: stretch findings (kali flavor)
On Sun 08 May 2016 at 14:55:58 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> 1) though stretch finds wireless network card and uses it during
> installation, it fails to save necessary files such that a working wireless
> networking connection can be obtained after installation completes and first
> boot is done,
This is to be expected if you did not intall a desktop task; Mate, etc.
> 2) the whole software selection in install is broken no selection I tried in
> there completed successfully after passing on package usage reporting
> selection making no selection and going with the defaults in package
> selection also generated an error statement,
The Stretch installer is not finalised yet. A possible bug?
> 3) the wireless tools package was not installed by default when a wireless
> network got selected as primary interface,
> That may be how and why the necessary network configuration files did not
> get saved but I'm probably wrong about that,
You should have wpasupplicant to set up wireless after the install.
> 4) radeon firmware failed to install even though nonfree packages got
> selected to install
> Could it be a hardware detection run ought to be done after the nonfree
> packages get selected to find out if any of those packages will fill
> otherwise gaping hardware holes left by failing to install nonfree firmware
> drivers?
You are expected to sort this out after the install. As the installation
manual says:
debian-installer only prompts for firmware needed by kernel
modules loaded during the installation. Not all drivers are
included in debian-installer, in particular radeon is not, so this
implies that the capabilities of some devices may be no different
at the end of the installation from what they were at the
beginning. Consequently, some of your hardware may not be being
used to its full potential. If you suspect this is the case, or
are just curious, it is not a bad idea to check the output of the
dmesg command on the newly booted system and search for
"firmware".
Install packages you want on the booted system by preseeding with a
late_command.
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