[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

[Wolfgang Bornath]

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).

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wobo