On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 4:06 AM Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi> wrote: > Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: > > Here's another way to attack those chicken/egg problems: > > Interesting approach. When I recently installed Debian on a newish > computer I needed some firmware packages and a newer kernel too from > debian-backports. I was able to use my phone connected to USB enough to > complete installation and then install what I needed from > debian-backports and then get online with built in ethernet. > > After that I have bought some cheap Linux-compatible USB ethernet and > USB wifi adapters, just in case. > > My approach to these problems is to sidestep them entirely: (1) Create an installable USB key on an existing connected machine (2) Install it on a new machine
Step 1 is much faster if that connected machine is NOT on wifi, but cabled to your router instead. You can even do Step 1 on a Win machine, Debian doc tells you how. And you can even increase your wifi throughput on the newly-installed machine by just disabling the wifi port and plugging that network cable directly into the router all the time. Wifi issues gone :-) the
