[Michael Gilbert] > That's a great start. However, Patrick is advocating images that > autodetect and install drivers/packages for non-free hardware as > well (not just firmware). That could probably be solved > straightforwardly if someone were to just go ahead implement it; > perhaps by someone already expressing interest in it???
I've implemented installation of hardware specific packages in debian-installer using discover-pkginstall, which uses the hardware->package mapping provided in the discover-data package. I guess it can also be used to install drivers and packages for non-free hardware, but suspect it would need to be extended to add the non-free section to sources.list for this to give a good user experience. I welcome help with this. Please test discover-pkginstall and provide discover-data patches to install the hardware specific packages you know about. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
