Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23
Hello Marc!
On 10/6/21 23:55, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Finally got a chance to test this more thoroughly. It turns out that
> the install is failing because of my odd install method (dump the
> install image on the disk, boot on it, overwrite the install media
> with the install).
Well, that can't work. The installation media is used during installation
to retrieve packages. It's not a pure network installation despite the name
NETINST.
The NETINST image should rather called SMALL because the basic set of packages
is actually being sourced from CD. Only netboot images are installing everything
over the network.
> This used to work until your images from 23/9/2021, but fails with the
> latest ones.
That's pure accident. It's not expected to work, really.
> However, using the disk to boot and then a USB key to
> provide another set of install media worked perfectly, and I now have
> a brand new XServe-G5!
That's great. Since you have a kernel.org email address, maybe you can help
work on the PowerPC kernel a bit ;-).
> I don't think it is worth worrying much about the odd install method.
> This is unnecessary in most cases, and the workaround is easy (at
> least in my case).
It's a method that can't work so this isn't something we can fix ;-).
> Thanks again for your precious help in getting this going!
Sure. And thanks for the feedback regarding the missing SATA drivers.
Adrian
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