Re: Problem installing Debian PowerPC Jessie on PowerMac G5 7,3 PCI-X
Thanks!
Karl
> Am 19.05.2019 um 21:17 schrieb Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>:
>
> Scroll the list of mirrors all the way to the top. (you can use the up-arrow key repeatedly, or the home key once) You’ll see an “enter manually” option there.
>
> Rick
>
>> On May 19, 2019, at 10:24 AM, Noah Wolfe <n.wolfe4@outlook.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Rick,
>>
>> Quick question, how do you manually enter repositories at
>> installation? For me, it always defaults to selecting a preexisting,
>> non-functional mirror off a list, and I never see any option to enter
>> anything manually, like it does by default in the ppc64 installations.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Noah
>>
>>> On May 18, 2019, at 9:43 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>> I’m trying to install Debian Jessie ppc64 8.11 on my PowerMac G5
>>> 7,3 machine for comparison purposes with Adrian’s 10.0 “ports”.
>>>
>>> I downloaded the PowerPC 8.11 DVD and used it to install a default
>>> system. The only thing out of the ordinary was that I had to
>>> manually enter the packages mirror name as “archive.debian.org”
>>> since Jessie is no longer available on the normal mirror network.
>>>
>>> The installation ran to completion, finishing up with installing
>>> yaboot on the hard disk.
>>>
>>> But when it tried to reboot into the installed system, it got to
>>> “second level boot loader” and stopped with the blinking question-
>>> mark folder icon.
>>>
>>> Does anybody have any ideas as to what’s going wrong?
>>>
>>> I can provide log files for the installation if you think they
>>> would help.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Rick
>
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