Installing drivers on USB sticks

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:53:54PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello Brian,
> 
> Brian Murray [2011-01-04 14:08 -0800]:
> > I've recently discovered hundreds of bug reports regarding people trying
> > to install drivers (bcmwl, fglrx, nvidia) on their Live USB version of
> > Ubuntu and it failing[1].
> 
> There are two main reasons for this:
> 
>  - update-initramfs not working (http://launchpad.net/bugs/557023)
> 
>  - There is too little RAM on a live system to download, build,
>    install, and run large drivers like nvidia and fglrx. Therefore
>    these should be disabled on a live system. This is tracked in
>    http://launchpad.net/bugs/685017, and I'll fix it for alpha-2.
> 
> It would still be nice to fix 557023 so that this at least works with
> smaller drivers like broadcom-wl (this doesn't actually need
> an initramfs update, I believe, but it might happen anyway).
> 
> > [3] http://launchpad.net/bugs/696656
> 
> Duped.

This was an example of a whole class of bugs that have been reported in
Launchpad.  Is it also safe to make those duplicates of bug 685017?

Thanks again,
-- 
Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master
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