On 12/28/2016 4:46 PM, Brian wrote:
On Wed 28 Dec 2016 at 04:48:41 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:I just purchased a used Lenovo T430 and did my interpretation of a minimal install of Debian 8.6.0 with a Mate DE. During install was a warning message that two non-free drivers were "required". As I had none available I chose the option to continue without installing. It went on and I have an apparently fully functional system. I have two questions: 1. Is there a log somewhere that would tell me what it thought was missing? The laptop may have a feature that I've never used but would like if I knew it existed.grep -i firmware /var/log/installer/syslog
What's missing is related to wifi which I'll not be using in the immediate future.
2. The explicit raison detre of this laptop is to serve as a test bed for, for want of a better term, alternative configurations. All install will be done with a very custom preseed.cfg file. If I'm not interested in whatever functionality provided by this non-free software, is there a way to bypass that particular warning?https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/example-preseed.txt
That suggests that I should add
d-i hw-detect/load_firmware boolean false
to my preseed.cfg . But might that disable something I do need?