On 1/13/19 2:00 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Dennis! On 1/13/19 6:38 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:Trivial question : is there an actual iso install image for the latest buster/sid ppc or ppc64 that will actually install ( and run? ) on ye elderly PowerMac G5 ? The nice thing to see would be a grub2 test but even lilo will get the process moving along.As you may have seen on the mailing list, the issue with GRUB on PowerPC Macs has not been resolved yet and is being worked on, so we're currently not building new images.
Thank you for the reply! I have been quietly following along.
You should be able to use the old images though:https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/
I will give that a try right away. What lines should one have in the /etc/apt/sources.list to make life somewhat easy ? I have had some difficulties with local university mirror sites mostly because the architecture simply doesn't exist there. I can only imagine that a RISC-V system will be far more obscure .. for now anyways. Dennis