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authorHolger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>2023-02-05 21:38:56 +0100
committerLaura Arjona Reina <larjona@debian.org>2023-06-10 19:29:51 +0200
commit01519572a84d2842c51be5416f8d3d9c7b3b3869 (patch)
treec5d865c13a2abc80e95baa183964a2eba793e9ed /english/CD
parentf9ace9fec84e75132e15149a9296c7ffd301c20d (diff)
Update webpage to GR non-free-firmware: remove chapter about debian-installer asking for non-free firmware from CD/faq. (Starting with bookworm, we can expect that (missing) firmware is no longer an issue, since the official images have the needed firmware onboard. Thus removing this from the FAQ.)
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@@ -61,51 +61,6 @@ drive</a>.</p>
# ============================================================
-# This text is basically the same as what's in the Debian wiki at
-# https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware
-
-<toc-add-entry name="firmware">Debian installer tells me my hardware
-needs extra firmware to work. Where do I get that?</toc-add-entry>
-
-<p>Many devices require firmware to operate. Historically, firmware
-would be built into the device's ROM or Flash memory, but more and
-more often, a firmware image has to be loaded into the device by a
-device driver during device initialization.</p>
-
-<p>Some firmware images are free and open-source, and some of them are
-non-free, which means that you would need to add the non-free and
-contrib components to your APT sources.</p>
-
-<p>In some cases the installer detects the need for non-free firmware
-and prompts the user to make the firmware available to the installer
-to complete the installation. This can happen, for example, with
-wireless network cards which often require non-free firmware to
-function (see ipw2200 for an example).</p>
-
-<p>There are two ways to proceed here:</p>
-
-<ul>
-
- <li>An easy method is to use an installer image that includes all
- non-free firmware packages directly. See
- <a href="https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/">https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/</a>
- for those.</li>
-
- <li>You can also download a firmware archive for your platform and
- unpack it into a directory named <q>firmware</q> in the root of a
- removable storage device (USB/CD drive). You can find firmware
- downloads for your Debian version at
- <a href="https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/">https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/</a>. When
- the installer starts, it will automatically find the firmware
- files in the directory on the removable storage and, if needed,
- install the required firmware. This is documented in
- the <a href="https://d-i.debian.org/doc/installation-guide/en.amd64/ch06s04.html">Debian
- installer manual</a>.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-# ============================================================
-
<toc-add-entry name="mailing-list">My question is not answered by this
FAQ!</toc-add-entry>

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