Re: Debian install including non free
Hi, On 29/12/12 21:42, Zenaan Harkness wrote: check out debmirror package also try: apt-cache search debian | egrep mirror Thanks so much for your response. I will look into it, and see what I can do. Cheers, Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50e310e2@iinet.net.au
Re: Debian install including non free
Oliver Fairhall wrote: I would like to include non free firmware/software/docs in my initial Debian installation. I have read some information online, though am still not sure of a few things. Must it be in the initial installation? Note that there are some systems that presently must include some nonfree firmware in the initial system install in order to work. See Bug#696571#77 for example. Hopefully these will be fixed before Wheezy's release. But hopefully these are rare corner cases. I will make a USB flash install drive, to be used on a number of machines, including some which will never see the internet. Since you will make a USB image this gives you some flexibility to build a custom install image that includes the additions you want. I have not personally spent too much time on USB images but this seems reasonable. I am assuming all this material is free, as in beer; is it possible to download an image of these collections, or download everything from the relevant repositories, and package it in such a way that it is available for Debian's installer to use? Yes. Anything in non-free is distributable but only free as in free beer. There has been a lot of discussion on the mailing lately about preseed files. You probably want to read through the archives. What you want to do is to create a custom usb install image with all of the packages you want on the image and additionally create a preseed.cfg file on the image that includes among other things that you will need something like this with whatever packages you require. You probably want some of firmware-linux-nonfree, firmware-ipw2x00, firmware-iwlwifi, firmware-realtek or others. d-i pkgsel/include string package1 package2 Here are some resources for you: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apb.html Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian install including non free
On 12/29/12, Oliver Fairhall o.fairh...@iinet.net.au wrote: is it possible to ... download everything from the relevant repositories, and package it in such a way that it is available for Debian's installer to use? check out debmirror package also try: apt-cache search debian | egrep mirror good luck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caosgnsrqcw8chhqxnobnobd6o+zg260vqrsnezhrsezlthy...@mail.gmail.com
Debian install including non free
Hi, I would like to include non free firmware/software/docs in my initial Debian installation. I have read some information online, though am still not sure of a few things. I will make a USB flash install drive, to be used on a number of machines, including some which will never see the internet. I expect there will be some non-free firmware required along the way. I also would like all non free documentation installed, as I don't know when I may need it, and may be in the field away from a network link. I would also like multimedia codecs etc installed. Probably other things too, which I am not aware of atm. copyleft.co.nz sell the 'Copyleft Plus' and 'Copyleft Non-Free' discs. http://www.copyleft.co.nz/products.html Can anyone comment on these? Are they a complete collection of relevant material for this purpose? There are also repositories of firmware/non-free material. Not sure if these include everything that may be relevant. I am assuming all this material is free, as in beer; is it possible to download an image of these collections, or download everything from the relevant repositories, and package it in such a way that it is available for Debian's installer to use? Thanks, Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50de67a3.1010...@iinet.net.au
