Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation
On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, userm57@yahoo.com wrote:
> On 6/10/19 2:14 AM, Finn Thain wrote:
> > On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, userm57@yahoo.com wrote:
> >> installation of the basic system succeeded after about four hours, then
> >> stopped at the "Configure the package manager" menu -- "Your
> >> installation CD or DVD has been scanned ... Scan another CD or DVD?".
> >> I selected "No" and hit return: no response, even after several hours.
> >
> > Same here (QEMU). I was able to get past this by using j instead of
> > enter/return.
>
> >
> > It seems that the old ADB keymap got enabled ("2==3" maps to "root").
> > This page has some explanation.
> > https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes
> >
> > ...
>
>
> ok, thanks. I didn't see a mapping for ":" at the above link, so I
> wasn't able to specify the apt repository http://ftp.ports.debian.org
>
> I retried the installation after adding
> "keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1" to the kernel boot options, as
> recommended at the above link. The installation still failed. So I'll
> need to look more for a complete mapping to find the correct ":" character.
>
Why not use the serial console?
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