Re: powerpc NETINST 20190124-23:05 "No installable kernel was found" installing on Mac mini G4

[Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de>]

Hi Rick,

On 1/27/19 13:38, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> > On Jan 27, 2019, at 4:04 AM, Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Adrian, Rick,
> >
> > On 1/27/19 09:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > On 1/27/19 4:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > > > I decided to “continue without installing a kernel” in hopes that I could get one from the network repo later on.
> > > >
> > > > When it came time to choose a network repo, I had no success trying to tell it that
> > > >      mirror protocol:  http
> > > >      mirror         :  ftp.ports.debian.org
> > > >      directory      :  /debian-ports/
> >
> > @Rick:
> > Was (1) the information just not accepted or (2) was there no dialogue
> > option to enter that information?
>
> The information was accepted but it never seemed to get into the target’s sources.list.

Strange, I wonder what was changed since 2018-05-18 that only affects
Debian Ports - or maybe it affects all of Debian and nobody noticed
earlier, as usually for supported architectures people would just choose
 a specific mirror close to them instead of manually entering the
required information, I assume.