:: Re: [DNG] Rant: was fresh install o…
Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Riccardo Mottola
Date:  
To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Rant: was fresh install of chimaera on an Ultrabook - no touchpad
Hi,

g4sra via Dng wrote:
> This is why Devuan's installer will ask\prompt you to insert additional installation media such as a USB stick.
> There are just too many Gigabytes of Drivers required to satisfy every corner case, put the drivers your quirky hardware requires on a USB stick and use it when prompted!
> I do not ever want to have to install an OS from 31 removable media's ever again! (Windows NT anybody?).


that's a bit an excuse and also extremely inconvenient. Since
downloading of that firmware is not certain an eeasy procedure for the
website.
I bet many of the essential drivers could fit on the DVD, we are not
speaking of floppies here.
Also, most essentially, it is a matter of network driver, the rest can
stay on the non-free repository.

Riccardo