Norberto
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:07:22 -0800
Subject: Re: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]
From: cymraegish@gmail.com
To: rbthomas@pobox.com
CC: 562575@bugs.debian.org; 564150@bugs.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
This bug is still present in the "Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010" businesscard CD downloaded from
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
So far as I can tell, this bug has not been looked at by the debian-installer folks.
Is PowerPC simply so unimportant that resources cannot be spared to even *look* at a problem that renders the installer unusable on that hardware?
From my experience
a) there is little point to the business card image. The netinstall is the good option.
b) daily builds are not necessarily supposed to work they are just for developers to share and try out ideas with.
c) try the weekly builds,
d) try testing, do a basic install and add unstable items with testing preferred. Unstable is not guaranteed to do anything except that (do I have this exactly right) certain very severe bugs cause it to reject moving to testing, after a short period of time the item either moves to testing or to experimental or nothing (in that particular version).
I am no DD I have just listened to the lists for a few years.
Brian
I can confirm that this is bug is also present on the playstation 3. Starting the installation gives the looping segmentation fault message.
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