HI Thank you for enquiries
I made the i386 boot key with a 1G usb key, using the dd command (dd if=debian-8.3.0....i386 of=/dev/sdb bs=4M) I next use fdisk to create sdb3 and made a fat32 filesystem. Copied on it - the missing firmware with the deb file - the missing firmware extrated from debfile in a /firmare subdirectory check-missing-firmware could not load the ipw2200-bs.fw I thought it was possibly because it was on sdb3 and not sdb1 I could mount manually the filesystem with mount and read sdb3 although I copied the same file on a quite large usbstick (4G) with FAT32 filesystem. All was this time on sdc1 didn't work neither Finally , after reading that fat was a first stage supported, but not necessaraly fat32, i copied the files again, this time on a small 512M usb key in FAT. This third time it worked. Hope this helps Regards Laurent Le 21/02/2016 21:21, Steve McIntyre a écrit : > Control: tag -1 +moreinfo > > Hi Laurent, > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 04:40:59PM +0100, Laurent COOPER wrote: >> Package: debian-installer >> Version: 20150422+deb8u3 >> >> What I've done : >> >> for installing firmware (for wireless card), I put the on a USB stick >> nowadays, the vast majority of USB stick is formatted FAT32, wich is >> almost read by all OS >> >> What was expected : >> check-missing-firmware should have loaded the missing firmware >> >> What happened : >> Nothing >> >> I managed the problem by using an old small key and formatting this key >> in FAT >> >> FAT32 support should be used by check-missing-firmware > > I've just tested doing exactly this and things worked OK for me, > booting from a netinst on a USB stick. Can you tell us more? How did > you boot, etc.? >
