Bug#340980: Upgrading to sid to install yaboot on a G5

[Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>]

Dear maintainters,

I finally managed to install a boot loader. To do so, I booted in rescue
mode, mounted the root partition in /target, and upgraded to sid.

Here are the details

- Boot on the install cd, type rescue, and press return.
- Answer the trivial questions about hostname, and select the partition
  where the root system is installed.
- In my case, if I open a shell through the installer's menu, the
  console has critical failures in display and keyboard input,
  especially if I want to use a text editor, so I opened the shell on
  the second console, which is OK (is it because I am not using the "C"
  locale?)
- mount /sys ; mount /proc
- vi /etc/apt/sources.list ; substitute unstable to testing
- aptitude update ; aptitude dist-upgrade
- mv /etc/yaboot.conf /etc/yaboot.conf_
- yabootconfig ; ybin
- reboot

The resulting system is bootable and, not so surprisingly, unstable.
The ethernet network fails to start, and the keyboard eventually
freezes after a few minutes. But I suppose I shall discuss this on the
debian-ppc list?

Nevertheless, I kept a second partition, so that I can test the
installer when it will contain the yaboot package of sid.

Best,

-- 
Charles