On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 12:43:00 +0000 g4sra via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 29th, 2021 at 6:58 AM, tito via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> > wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:26:07 +0000 > > g4sra via Dng dng@lists.dyne.org wrote: > > > <--snip--> > > > This is why Devuan's installer will ask\prompt you to insert additional > > > installation media such as a USB stick. > > > > > Hi > > > > > The user most of the time doesn't even know which driver or firmware blob > > he needs so this is not a solution > > (unless you know how to scan dmesg...to spot the trouble). > > > > > Better would be to tell them: > > 1. minimal install, netinstall isos/usb images are for advanced users as > > they could miss firmware/drivers and you are on your own. > > 2. full install CD/DVD/usb images contain all available firmware/drivers > > and give best results (plus initial opt out of non-free stuff defaulting > > to: I want it) > > Note the line following in my original text > > > There are just too many Gigabytes of Drivers required to satisfy every > > > corner case, > You would need to put Drivers and Firmware for every network device in > existence on the installation media. Hi, let's add this up for example for amd64 kernel 48 MB firmware-linux-free 19.2 KB There no more interesting packages in my Synaptic kernel and modules section if we assume that a install iso ships just one kernel. In the kernel and modules (contrib) section there a few packages not more then 20MB. in the kernel and modules (non-free) section about 50 more packages about 206 MB. Some 300 MB in total, where are all the GBs? Even if we add DKMS and compilers which I skipped how much GBs will them be?. What am I missing? Ciao, Tito > > > > put the drivers your quirky hardware requires on a USB stick and use it > > > when prompted! > > > I do not ever want to have to install an OS from 31 removable media's > > > ever again! (Windows NT anybody?). > > > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
