I just patched the CD and DVD build system to try to provide the extra firmware packages in a location where debian-installer (hw-detect) is able to find them. The firmware packages are only looked for in / and /firmware/ on the CD and DVD, while we provided them in /pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/.
I implemented this by creating a script called using the DISC_FINISH_HOOK provided by debian-cd, and symlink from ../pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/*.deb to /firmware/. I am unsure if using symlinks work, and a bit unsure if d-i will find these packages. I suspect d-i will ask for them even if they are available, so if you have hardware in need of extra firmware and test the latest lenny-test netinst CD, do not be surprised if the question show up even thought the firmware is available. Please test and let me know if this work? I lack hardware that need extra firmware, so I can't test this myself. :( 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]
