Hi, On Samstag, 13. März 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > 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/.
Nice.
> 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 [...]
Are you refering to the question whether to look for the firmware or to accept
specific licences? The latter I actually see as a requierement :-)
cheers,
Holger
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