Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>]

On 1/13/19 4:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 1/13/19 10:48 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > Trying to locate a mirror and I see :
> >
> > ~ # tail /var/log/syslog
> > Jan 13 21:44:29 anna-install: Installing apt-mirror-setup
> > Jan 13 21:45:12 choose-mirror[4695]: DEBUG: command: wget --no-verbose http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/testing/Release -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename|Architectures):'
> > Jan 13 21:45:12 choose-mirror[4695]: WARNING **: mirror does not support the specified release (testing)
> Which happens when you use the expert mode installation.
>
> Please use the default installation method, anything else is untested.
>
> We don't have many people helping with finding and fixing these issues,
> so progress is slow. Anything fancy should be used on the release architectures
> only.
>
> Adrian

I just tried the default installer and the result upon reboot was that
the boot loader complained about a corrupt filesystem.

I may need to boot the iso installer dvd and get a shell and use dd to
write zeros to the hard disk clyinders 0 and 1.

Dennis