Re: Success with Debian Ports 2020-04-19
Hi Charles!
On 4/20/20 6:57 PM, Charles E. Lehner wrote:
> Another sometime powerpc user here. I successfully used the 2020-04-19
> image today to install Debian on a PowerBook6,4. Thanks for making it
> work. It was cool that the CD showed the GNU icon in the Mac boot
> menu - I dunno if that is new.
It's part of the debian-installer since we switched to GRUB for booting
the CDs. Another user has already posted a custom Debian icon for the
CD which I will test and include later.
> I used Guided partitioning to the whole disk and a btrfs root partition.
> GRUB and everything worked.
Good.
> The mirrors list was empty, but the default one worked and is probably best
> for me anyway since I'm in the US. I picked the LXDE task and it is
> working great.
It should at least list the mirrors for Germany and South-Korea. At least
these showed during my tests.
> No web browser included, but I am using dillo and arcticfox [1].
Firefox currently doesn't build on 32-bit PowerPC, it does build on
64-bit PowerPC though.
Adrian
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