On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 14:29 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > With the non-free exclusions from the iso [1], installation wasn't > possible without taking further steps. Not sure this non-free image > thing is a good idea(tm) -- perhaps images WITH the non-free drivers > need to be made easily available, if not, I can see many people > abandoning Debian to use something "easier" to install.
I saw this discussed a while ago on the debian-project mailing list [1], and there are now netinst iso images with non-free firmware available at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/05/msg00117.html -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1294731545.2291.21.ca...@computer2.home