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

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>]

On 1/13/19 6:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > 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)

comment : I'll happily search the installer code and find
           where 'testing' is hard coded. Easy enough.

> > > 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.

Ah yes ... this all seems familiar to me now.
OKay .. going to try again and perhaps with a separate ext2fs /boot if
possible.  Not sure.  The Apple PowerMac G5 units want a strange
partition table with an Apple boot slice and I can not recall what else.

Dennis