[Pkg-sugar-devel] sugar install

[Tony Anderson]

Ongoing saga.

After trying several options without success:
     downloading missing firmware files which were not found by the 
installer
     downloading version with firmware which failed during download 
(forbidden). The download went overnight so I don't know if anything
triggered the message.
     connecting to internet by router

The last attempt seemed to work although it did not set up wifi. However 
after 4 hours it hung 'updating grub'. The install appears to have 
minimal content on the usb drive and download everything. This is tricky 
with a ISP with 50kbs download speed and subject to interruption. After 
completing the download of 1400 files, it failed. However a restart of 
that step started at the last file and completed.

Mistakenly I selected the graphical interface which doesn't provide any 
useful error messages.

The grub portion of the install has reported problems. I think the 
source is that the laptop is setup already with Ubuntu and Windows 
dual-boot and so there is an existing grub setup.

Tony

On 04/23/2017 04:53 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Tony Anderson (2017-04-23 07:31:10)
>> I created unallocated space of 50gb and installed debian. During the
>> installation it was unable to set up networking because of two missing
>> 'proprietary' files.
> A few suggestions:
>
>    * Use ethernet (wifi is commonly unfriendly towards Free software)
>    * Maybe try unofficial install image with non-free firmware added:
>      http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
>    * Seek help generally about Debian:
>      https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/installmanual
>      https://wiki.debian.org/QuickInstall
>      https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/
>
> This mailinglist is not for generally getting Debian installed, so if
> you have problems with that, please seek help elsewhere (see above).
>
> Looking forward to your experiences with Sugar on Debian!
>
>
>   - Jonas
>
>
>

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