[$] Installing Debian on modern hardware

It is an unfortunate fact of life that non-free firmware blobs are requiredto use some hardware, such as network devices (WiFi in particular), audioperipherals, and video cards. Beyond that, those blobs may even berequired in order to install a Linux distribution, so an installation overthe network may need to get non-free firmware directly from the installationmedia. That, as might be guessed, is a bit of a problem for distributionsthat are not willing to officially ship said firmware because of itsnon-free status, as a recent discussion in the Debian community shows.