Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2024-11-11

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi Cao,

On Tue, 2024-11-12 at 04:16 +0000, Cao GH wrote:
> 1. ​Before partitioning it shows the message: "This partitioner doesn't have information
> about the default type of the partition tables on your architecture". loong64 uses UEFI
> so gpt should work fine.

This means we're missing partman recipes for loong64. I will fix that.

> 2. On qemu virt machine the installer cannot find a suitable kernel package to install.
> I skipped it and installed linux-image-loong64 manually with the "run a shell" option.

I seem to be remember that Dandan (CC'ed) mentioned this issue as well. I will look into it.

> The installed system (I only selected basic system utilities in tasksel) boots and runs
> fine afterwards.

How did you manage to boot the system? Multiple people reported that they were unable to
boot the installation image.

Thanks,
Adrian

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