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It should contain nonfree firmware and +</I>><i> >> drivers for such cases. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> -- +</I>><i> >> Sander +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Yes, and i saw no difference at all; both interfaces fail. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Trouble for most (if not almost all) wireless usage is that we would +</I>><i> need to know how to find and connect to the wireless AP and enter +</I>><i> passwords etc, and this falls out of scope of boot.iso as it needs +</I>><i> network access to download stage2 installer where this could be done. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> boot*.iso is supposed to stay small for local lan installs. +</I> +If wireless is not supposed to be supported it is possible to strip it to +smaller size. Now it seem half baked or bugged as it tries and fail. + + + Great, i see info linked from download page, Good work :) +<A HREF="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installation_Media#Network_Installs">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installation_Media#Network_Installs</A> +But more info about what the alternatives are +supposed to support would be nice. +Maybe i should try all.img? + +And in <A HREF="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Boot.iso_install">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Boot.iso_install</A> : +"there are still issues with bringing up the network and with drivers for WLAN +cards (although in cauldron we have a boot-nonfree.iso that contains +proprietary drivers, so this might change in future)." + + + +><i> If we start adding more code to boot*.iso, it becomes the same as dual & +</I>><i> livecds. +</I> +LiveCD was my second option but they were then not available... + +Dual arch do not contain proprietary drivers. + + +Also, my situation is that I as many other users, have limited data transfer +per month, so i try to download as little as possible, use urpmi-proxy, and +normal internet proxy. + +Maybe there should be a mini-live, that boots up to LXDE desktop (or similar), +english only, only simple text editor, mcc drakxtools, etc, gparted, and all +possible drivers for NICs and graphics. ( no office packages, picture tools, +games...) + +I guess a serieously stripped down variant of the normal Live iso would be +less work than getting the currently non working boot-nonfree.iso, and +maintain it ? + + +><i> what could/should be done is to add possibility to load nonfree +</I>><i> firmware from additional local media to stage1 +</I> +I am pretty certain i saw that option during boot + +><i> > Possibly it do not even power up the PC-card as leds never lit up to +</I>><i> > confirm the connection to router, but if i plug it in a working system +</I>><i> > it lits up. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > So i guess that makes for two bugs? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> Thomas +</I> +-- +Morgan Leijström +</PRE> + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007025.html">[Mageia-discuss] What network interfaces are supposed to be supported by boot.iso? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007026.html">[Mageia-discuss] What network interfaces are supposed to be supported by boot.iso? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#7028">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#7028">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#7028">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#7028">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |