General Questions • firmware detection after installation with firmware=never

Hello,

the parameter firmware=free (instead of firmware=never) [..] does not exist?

According to the "Debian GNU Linux Installation Guide >> B.4. Contents of the preconfiguration file for bookworm" [1] [2], only the preseed parameter below is currently implemented:

• hw-detect/firmware-lookup string never

(of which firmware=never is an alias).

[..] there is currently no way to install automatically free firmware only during installation on Debian 12 [..] ?

According to [1][2], you can use preseed parameters to ask the Debian installer not to install packages from "non-free-firmware" and/or "non-free" repositories at all. This way only firmwares from the "main" section of Debian repositories should be installed. I leave it to you to find the preseed parameters. :wink:

Hope this helps.

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[1] https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/apbs04.en.html
[2] preseed_V1 - Contents of the preconfiguration file (for bookworm)

Statistics: Posted by Aki — 2024-05-07 06:09 — Replies 3 — Views 161

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