[Mageia-discuss] How to solve this problem?

Wed Nov 9 13:10:32 CET 2011

Am 08.11.2011 22:57, schrieb Frank Griffin:
+> On 11/08/2011 04:33 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+>> Frank Griffin skrev 8.11.2011 23:12:
+>>> On 11/08/2011 12:53 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+>>>>
+>>>> NO.
+>>>> We wont bloat the boot.iso.
+>>>>
+>>> Uh, why ?  What possible downside does a larger boot.iso have ?
+>>
+>>
+>> Because it's designed to be as small as possible, only containing
+>> enough to get a network install going.
+>
+> That's the whole point.  You *can't* get a network install going without a 
+> wired NIC.
+>
+>>
+>> With all the stuff needed to do what you want, _thats_ what the
+>> dual iso is built for (or livecds for that matter).
+>
+> I have no experience with the dual ISO, but are you saying that it will allow 
+> a network install via wireless, supporting all of the wireless NICs that an 
+> iinstalled system supports ?
+>
+>
+What would be interesting, is what additional packages/changes
+would be needed to at least support those wireless NICs which
+are directly supported by the kernel without firmware.
+Wouldn't this only need the addition of the following:
+libiw, wireless-tools, wpa_supplicant
+
+Or would this imply bigger changes to the code generating the boot.iso?
+