Re: Trying the netinstall again on Atari Falcon
On 02/10/2018 01:51 AM, Stefan Niestegge wrote:
> since someone on #atari-home IRC asked me how Debian would work these days, i gave the new Netinstaller Adrian released another try.
Please invite anyone interested to Debian on m68k or other exotic architectures
to the #debian-68k and #debian-ports channels. I have the impression that there
are lots of people interested in Linux on such machines, but not many are aware
we're working on the support for these.
> While looking at the kernel output at boot i saw that my Network card
> is indeed supported (i thought it wasn't until 2 days ago!). It only
> needed the MAC address to be set manually, then the eth0 came up.
> This is more a firmwar bug of the "EtherNAT" network card that has no
> MAC adress default.
Yes, MAC addresses are normally set in the firmware. You might be able
to reprogram your network card's firmware chip to fix the issue.
> So Adrian added the pata_falcon module to the initramfs and installation
> can begin. The D-I works really well! When the network failed, i went to
> a second console brought up the network manually and let D-I retry DHCP.
>
> Then after choosing the right (thx Adrian) ftp mirror and subfolder
> installation was quite easy.
There is a patch by "JH Chatenet" for the debian-installer component
"choose-mirror" to address this issue. Unfortunately, KiBI (d-i maintainer)
didn't agree on merging the patch yet until similar work was done for
Debian Backports.
Maybe I'll have a look at the patch and merge it myself.
> Adrian showed me how to set the mac address at boot time, so now the
> network is up automatically.
For the record, this can be easily achieved using systemd-networkd
using the "MACAdress" directive in the [Link] section, see:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd-networkd
> I installed the ssh so one can even log in remotely. Installing stuff
> with apt works flawless.
>
>
> The intalled Debian has atm two problems
>
> -keyboard (de layout) work ok for usual letters and numbers, also those
> that need the shift modifier, but many important characters like ~ @ | and [ ] cannot be typed on the Atari
>
> -xserver crashes
>
> I'd need help with that. I'll append the dmesg.txt and xorg.log files.
> Let me know if you want more logfiles or remote access.
FWIW, during the last meetup in 2015 we had, you actually had X.Org running
on your Atari Falcon using the fbdev driver, although you might have used
a different graphics card back then. Either way, X worked.
Adrian
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