[Petter Reinholdtsen]
Yesterday, I figured out a workaround for this, and I wanted to
share the solution with the rest of you, and ask if perhaps the
default behaviour of debian-cd or d-i (hw-detect) should change to
make this workaround unneeded.
Further testing of this fix proved that it is
Hi,
On Dienstag, 16. März 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
An additional issue with non-free firmware is that including it in the way
you propose would (I think) mean it will get loaded without any prompting
of the user, which may in some cases violate licence terms.
i thought the same at first, but
[Frans Pop]
I think the problem with that is that including the firmware on the
CD in the first place is in contradiction with Debian's current
policy not to include firmware in the distribution. The current
firmware support is very explicitly limited to support loading from
external media
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Dienstag, 16. März 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
An additional issue with non-free firmware is that including it in the
way you propose would (I think) mean it will get loaded without any
prompting of the user, which may in some cases violate
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
Actually, something causes main-menu to crash if I adjust mountmedia
to return CD devices too, so I suspect it is better to adjust
check-missing-firmware to also look in /cdrom/firmware/ for debs.
Probably because the CD is already mounted
[Holger Levsen]
P.S.: should this be moved to a proper bug?
Yes. Patch for hw-detect submitted in #574116.
Happy hacking,
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reassign 573791 installation-reports
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thanks
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, steve clark wrote:
I sent a report to the debian bug reporting system (bug number 573791)
but it seems to not have been taken serious, being shuffled between
responsible owners.
I see it
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reassign 573791 installation-reports
Bug #573791 [cdimage.debian.org] apt-get update in Debian 5.04 (lenny) failing
since updates of 2010-03-11
Bug reassigned from package 'cdimage.debian.org' to 'installation-reports'.
tag 573791 unreproducible
Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Dienstag, 16. März 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
An additional issue with non-free firmware is that including it in the
way you propose would (I think) mean it will get loaded without any
prompting of the user, which may in
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