Re: On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2009-01-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: It would be nice if you (or someone else) would then explain[1] why having a limited set of d-i images + cd images which contained the non-free firmware necessary for certain hardware to boot would be an

Re: On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2009-01-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: Sure it does; it's a set of the initial media which contains the non-free firmware in *addition* to the normal stuff contained on the fully DFSG-free media. [You'd just need this for CD1, the netinst,

Re: On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2009-01-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: It would be nice if you (or someone else) would then explain[1] why having a limited set of d-i images + cd images which contained the non-free firmware necessary for certain hardware to boot would

Re: On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2009-01-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: Sure it does; it's a set of the initial media which contains the non-free firmware in *addition* to the normal stuff contained on the fully DFSG-free media. [You'd just need this for CD1, the netinst, business card and cd images, and perhaps the

Re: On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2009-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: It would be nice if you (or someone else) would then explain[1] why having a limited set of d-i images + cd images which contained the non-free firmware necessary for certain hardware to boot would be an intractable solution. From where I

On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2008-12-24 Thread Don Armstrong
Switching from -vote to -boot and -cd. On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: 1: -vote really is the wrong list to discuss this on; Cc'ing debian-cd so knowledgeable people there can tell me I'm on crack. Second of all, the analysis for