Hello guys,
It's good to be here. I am trying to install Trisquel on an hard drive, with
windows 7 already installed. I also want to keep the Windows OS. I have made
a bootable USB stick with Universal USB Installer through windows (I have
also made it bootable with Startup Disk Creator in
Thanks onpon4, but I am not sure that I understood what you told about the
WiFi connection... I need to purchase a Wireless USB adapter like this one:
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-g-usb-adapter ,
because my laptop's wireless card need a non-free firmware which I
Actually, there's a defect in Linux-libre that prevents it from being able to
load proprietary firmware blobs (due to the way Linux finds them; an explicit
reference is depended on), so you'd either need to modify and then recompile
Linux-libre or use a different version of Linux (probably
You select how to install it when the installer asks. Did you actually get to
that point? It sounds like you quit prematurely out of fear.
The installer isn't going to erase Windows unless you tell it to. You should
get a choice to erase everything, install Trisquel alongside Windows, or
because my laptop's wireless card need a non-free firmware which I cannot
get with trisquel?
you can get it with trisquel but its a non-free program so you would be
restricted by it.
why did you downvote onpons post? he's right! Jxself (he certainly knows
about kernels) was speaking about this just a day ago in IRC.
It's an excellent defect in the linux libre kernel. +1 onpon.
Perhaps because he documented how to use proprietary software.
use a different version of Linux (probably Debian's version) to use a
proprietary firmware blob
