[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

Thu Mar 24 11:54:07 CET 2011

2011/3/24 Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com>:
+> Am Donnerstag 24 März 2011, 11:43:57 schrieb Rémi Verschelde:
+>> 2011/3/24 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+>> > We already made such a difference by using different repositories, we
+>> > not continue this in our "product line"? We use a different repo for
+>> > non-free, we also should use a different ISO for non-free.
+>>
+>> That's what I was thinking about. Could it be possible to have a
+>> "free" ISO and a "non-free" ISO? (although we should not advertise it
+>> this way, for "Mageia 1 Non-Free" isn't very glamorous).
+>> I'm not really knowledgeable on this matter so there may be inherent
+>> problems to that solution.
+>>
+> If I'm not mistaken, Debian squeeze doesn't put any nonfree things on it's ISO
+> at all, but you can put an archive containing them on an usb key and the
+> installer looks for it and installs them, when they are present. I think, that
+> is an elegant way, isn't it?
+
+Well, that's exactly what I suggested in the beginning: a small
+dualarch ISO with the non-free stuff to be used additionally during
+installation (and later).
+
+-- 
+wobo
+