Re: Is there an install method for buster/sid on an old PowerMac G5 ?
> On Jan 14, 2019, at 12:29 AM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
Yes. Because Yaboot doesn’t like modern ext4 filesystem features. You need to use ext3 for the boot partition.
This is why we are replacing Yaboot with GRUB.
Adrian
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