Bug#940528: debian-installer: B43 Firmware Not Found or Installed

Package: debian-installer Version: Buster 10 Severity: normal Tags: d-i The following notes a number of installer problems. I attempted to install Buster on Dell Studio XPS with debian- live-10.1.0-amd64-xfce+non-free. During install there is a notice of a need for B43 firmware. But while the

Bug#700633: Debootstrap is very slow. Please use eatmydata to fix this.

Version: 1.0.115 Hi everyone, I’m appalled that this feature request is still open… I’ve got a need to do this without patching debootstrap, and have had success (although I did not time it, but someone else can ;-) with this sequence of commands (assuming dpkg-deb is available ― which my