I had found that solution but wasn't aware that it would work for my situation. However, I'm not willing to go through that messy business just for this little pet project, and I'm not completely married to the idea of using Debian for this particular purpose. I was originally going to use #!++, but it turns out I don't have the patience to try and figure out how to set up an MPD/Icecast stream on such a minimal OS. I'll just use another distro or find some other solution. I was hoping I was just missing something simple like Mint has. Unfortunately Mint doesn't appear to work any better and that doesn't leave much hope for MintDE. Thanks for the actually helpful answer, though. There has to be a simpler way to do what I'm trying to do, but if I can't find anything better, I might give that a shot if I feel ambitious enough.
debiman wrote:EVERY? EVER? Linux has been around much longer than since you hit puberty, and just a few years ago that was the standard. if there was a live version at all.
No, it hasn't. And >5 years is not "just a few years ago" I've been using Mint and their live USB images to install for years, thanks. All I'm saying is that most distros can be installed from their live images and Debian should maybe just get with the times, yeah?
debiman wrote:i hope you manage to use a search engine (because you most likely aren't the first to encounter this problem), find a solution, and apply it.
I looked for about half an hour and couldn't find the solution I was looking for, which is why I posted here. It doesn't matter how long I would have spent looking, it appears the solution I was looking for doesn't exist.
p.H wrote:I have never used Debian live images, but IIUC this just boots the standard Debian installer instead of the live system, it does not launch the installation from the live system. So I'm afraid it won't solve the OP's problem being the lack of support of the SD card reader in the installer.
Correct.
p.H wrote:Some network cards don't work due to the lack of required non-free firmwares in the official Debian installer images. The official DVD 1 image does not include any non-free material either so it does not help making the network work, it just allows to do a more complete installation offline. Unofficial images including non-free firmwares are available.
It's funny how live Debian actually detects my wifi card and lets me connect but the the live Mint does not. It's also weird that I'm able to connect to wifi in the live Debian, but the Debian installer often has a lot of trouble either detecting the wifi card or connecting to the wireless network. Yet another strange thing is that, while I've already mentioned that the live Debian session will detect and mount my SD card, the live Mint will not detect that either.