the real right solution its provide a firmware disc that's all.. too much complicated stupid guindow-like steps.. (like windo 98 when machiine do not have the "drivers")
Debian has a unnoficial special backports disc: the Kenshi muto b-i discs http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ solves that problem in the nomadays for debian disc.. so then later debian start to provide network install flavours with firmware includeds.
of course the difference between Kenshi muto images and debian firmware images was that the K-M images has backported recents kernels for stable releases with firmware icluding and some hacks for wifis, the debian official firmware images only has the firmware packages including...
]]>The intention of this post is to suggest a way to bring Devuan to those who are finding it difficult to install it. A solution among the many available is to provide a .tar.gz file containing a minimal installation as obtained by debootstrap. I would add some tweaks to it like adding a root account and basic wired (ethernet) networking. Such an archive would provide potential users to get hold of Devuan irrespective of whether an installer succeeds or not.
The procedure would be this:
Download the .tar.gz file and print the steps to get a working Devuan installation.
Boot the GPARTED Live CD.
Create a partition with a native Linux filesystem like ext3 and ext4.
Mount the newly created and formatted partition.
Extract the .tar.gz file in the new partition.
Chroot into the new partition.
Continue with the installation of a graphical environment and a bootloader.
Exit chroot and unmount the partition.
Reboot to test the new partition.
The advantage of this procedure is it follows the same steps a Windows user would take, as the commands to be executed while using the GPARTED CD, can be automated in a shell script and even an executable. So, the procedure would reduce to download .tar.gz file and the installer executable, boot GPARTED CD, copy both files to /home, run executable and follow any instructions from the installer.
It is useless getting frustrated at the lack of cooperation from hardware manufacturers regarding Wifi support.
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