Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Here's another way to attack those chicken/egg problems:
Interesting approach. When I recently installed Debian on a newish
computer I needed some firmware packages and a newer kernel too from
debian-backports. I was able to use my phone connected to USB enough to
complete installation and then install what I needed from
debian-backports and then get online with built in ethernet.
After that I have bought some cheap Linux-compatible USB ethernet and
USB wifi adapters, just in case.
My approach to these problems is to sidestep them entirely:
(1) Create an installable USB key on an existing connected machine
(2) Install it on a new machine
Step 1 is much faster if that connected machine is NOT on wifi, but cabled to your router instead.
You can even do Step 1 on a Win machine, Debian doc tells you how.
And you can even increase your wifi throughput on the newly-installed machine by just disabling the
wifi port and plugging that network cable directly into the router all the time. Wifi issues gone :-)
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