Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?
On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:19:37 +0100
Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:
>L'octidi 18 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit :
>> 2. Unpack the .deb for the firmware you want:
>>
>> ar -x /cdrom/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/<your_firmware.deb>
>>
>> 3. Uncompress data.tar.xz:
>>
>> unxz data.tar.xz
>>
>> 4. Install the firmware in /lib/firmware:
>>
>> tar xvf data.tar
>
>What is the point of doing three steps with intermediate files when a single
>step is enough?
>
>For decompressing and detaring, everybody knows how to use a pipe:
>
Actually, no, everybody does not know how to use a pipe. Many can not
even find the "|" on the keyboard.
>unxz < data.tar.xz | tar x
>
>With GNU tar, "tar xJ" will call unxz automatically, and if the input is a
>file, "tar xf" will detect the compression.
>
>Furthermore, dpkg provides tools to handle deb packages:
>
>dpkg --fsys-tarfile /path/to/file.deb | tar x
>
>Regards,
>
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