[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

Oliver Burger oliver.bgr at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 24 11:49:33 CET 2011


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?

Oliver


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