Am Donnerstag, 4. Juni 2015 schrieb Steve Litt:
> [...]
> Why, why, WHY was that not stated *right up front*? From the
> beginning, *scream* "Don't waste time: If you get a prompt saying
> unsupported hardware, load the right stuff into your thumbdrive and
> just try again." Very explicit, exact instructions should be given how
> to do this. Imagine the difference...
>
> You come home from Costco clutching your brand new laptop, all hot and
> bothered to install Devuan because you've heard it's simpler and better
> made than the others. You boot your Devuan DVD, and it tells you your
> network card needs a firmware. Fortunately for you, the documentation
> *screamed* that you might need nonfree firmware, walked you through
> exactly how to thumb-drive it, you use a different computer to put it
> on the thumb drive, stick it in, try again, and the install goes
> perfectly. Devuan was every bit as good as you thought.
>
> Bottom line: Be on the same team as reasonable users.
>
> SteveT

+1, but who says the thumb drive will work without firmware for the USB host?

Nik




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