First let me explain why I wanted to install void and my situation: Presently I dual boot debian and obarun but ever since i installed obarun I've booted into debian a lot less. So I want to replace the debian partition with a more simplistic distro for wine along with my own transition to the bsds; not because wine can't work in obarun, but I also don't want any part of systemd even if it means installing lib32-systemd. pacman --assume-installed=systemd -S wine will just install the lib32-systemd dependency and vice versa. So I decided to burn void* to a usb.
WIFI problems on void ahoy! Yes, at the time of this post, wifi is nonexistent on void, or so I've discovered after booting into the void-musl-base iso, the wifi option in void-installer might as well be a joke because wpa_supplicant isn't a service by default, and surprise-surprise linux-firmware are nonexistent on the musl iso. Lets take a side by side comparison from distrowatch:
First Void: (Notice how linux-firmware
isn't there)
taco@ zen ~ % wget -qO- "http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=void&pkglist=true&version=current# pkglist" | html2text | cut -d ';' -f2 | grep linux-firmware
taco@ zen [1] ~ %
Next Arch: (Notice how linux-firmware is there)
taco@ zen ~ % wget -qO- "https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=arch&pkglist=true&version=current# pkglist" | html2text | cut -d ';' -f2 | grep linux-firmware
linux-firmware-20160516.80d463b-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
taco@ zen ~ %
To further my rant, Void wiki editors assume you have Ethernet
Void Linux Wiki wrote*Networking is required to download additional packages while using the live image as well as to perform a network-based install [0]
They also instruct to install linux-firmware
after installing void [1]. Therefore, Void users are either forced to use ethernet or a desktop environment [2]. However I don't want to spend my time removing crap later from a DE.
P.S
Dear Mmix, compared to void; the obarun installer is a !@ # $ing
cake walk. need to install obarun from wifi? Done.
Did obarun make you !@ # %ing download a firmware binary from a different operating system connected to the internet? No, I didn't think so.
Remember when Linus Torvalds told a auditorium full of people that he couldn't install debian?
This was why.
I also don't blame the fact Richard Stallman himself has
never installed GNU/Linux because this kind of shit is tedious.
Even gentoo has !@ # %ing linux-firmware in the base installation!
From # voidlinux in the freenode irc chat
bit: I just don't understand why linux-firmware isn't already on the iso.
bit: Not everyone has ethernet :)
estulticia: heh
Vaelatern: Nonfree stuff, I think.
Fucking really?
/rant over
[0]
https://wiki.voidlinux.eu/Live_Images
[1]
https://wiki.voidlinux.eu/Post_Installation
[2]
https://forum.voidlinux.eu/t/unable-to-configure-network-at-install/345