Control: severity -1 wishlist On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 16:55 +0300, Andrey Tataranovich wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Version: 8.0 beta > Severity: important > Tags: d-i > > Dear Maintainer, > > A few days ago I tried to install Debian Jessie using "Debian GNU/Linux > testing > "Jessie" - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20150209-06:32" disk. > > Network card require non-free firmware to work (d-i unable to detect network > hardware without it) so I inserted NTFS formated usb stick with needed > firmware > (/firmware). But seems NTFS is not supported so I was unable to proceed. > > Why not to add support for NTFS for loading missing firmware? As I know kernel > already have support for reading NTFS volumes.
NTFS is special because it is not a user-space filesystem. And Windows does not allow formatting removable drives as NTFS, so this is not a normal filesystem to use on removable drives. Reducing the severity accordingly. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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