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Re: Disk problem whilst attempting to install Buster (10.7)

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On Lu, 25 ian 21, 18:12:18, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> On 25/01/2021 17:58, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > 
> > {i} A wired ethernet connection is essentially required to use
> > the netinst installer and install non-free firmware (if you're
> > using installation media without the non-free iwlwifi drivers).
> > This is because the wired connection works out of the box, but
> > extra non-free drivers are needed for the wi-fi card.
 
The image already containing non-free firmware should work then ;)

> >     You could also use another Debian computer to download the
> > packages onto a USB stick, and you can manually install the
> > required extra packages from it using dpkg - but using a wired
> > connection is easier. 
> > 
> > 
> Hello Dan,  I've been using Bullseye for several months, but thought I'd
> better stay with Buster as this m/c was bought for a naive friend. It
> now looks as if Bullseye is the better bet so I'll give it a go tomorrow.

The freeze for bullseye has already started, so the usual warnings are 
against using testing are relaxed.

https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html

There will still be many updates until the release, but generally only 
minor and/or Debian only versions, to fix release critical bugs.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Disk problem whilst attempting to install Buster (10.7) Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2021-01-25 18:20 +0100
  Re: Disk problem whilst attempting to install Buster (10.7) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-25 18:20 +0100
    Re: Disk problem whilst attempting to install Buster (10.7) Alexis Grigoriou <alexis@nanoid.net> - 2021-01-25 18:50 +0100
    Re: Disk problem whilst attempting to install Buster (10.7) Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2021-01-25 18:50 +0100
      Re: Disk problem whilst attempting to install Buster (10.7) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-25 19:00 +0100
        Re: Disk problem whilst attempting to install Buster (10.7) Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2021-01-25 19:20 +0100
          Re: Disk problem whilst attempting to install Buster (10.7) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-26 08:40 +0100
            Re: Disk problem whilst attempting to install Buster (10.7) Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-01-26 11:20 +0100
              Re: Disk problem whilst attempting to install Buster (10.7) Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2021-01-26 16:50 +0100

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