Re: debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso from 18 May 2018
Hi Dennis,
On 4/5/19 22:44, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 4/5/19 4:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/5/19 10:03 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
So now I will test variations on what it says there and maybe I can pick
a mirror somewhere that works. However if "buster" is hard coded into
the pkg fetch process then I am just pounding sand here.
"buster" isn't hard-coded in there. I just verified that.
I assume that perhaps somewhere in the process you were using something
other than the Debian ports mirror, which I think can lead to the
installer to offer a choice of Debian releases/distributions for
installation instead of automatically selecting Sid/unstable.
We are missing the point .. entirely.
No regular user would figure this stuff out.
Maybe.
But I've done "countless" installations for powerpc and ppc64 targets
when improving d-i/grub-installer and apart from the manual mirror
selection I didn't recognize any major obstacles during the installations.
So yes .. docs need to be written in a "modern" way and I am actually
doing videos also.... however it is frustrating.
Could you maybe create a list of points you consider:
* not working
* unclear
* unknown
...for a specific installer ISO (preferably the latest one, i.e. [1] at
the moment), so that we can work through this list and provide
additional documentation if need be in e.g. the Debian wiki.
Cheers,
Frank
[1]:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-01-27/debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso
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