Re: NEW netinst 2022-03-28 test images
On 3/28/22 14:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Mar 28, 2022, at 8:38 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:
With great thanks to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz we see new test images
have landed :
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/
Therefore I shall jump on that right away and begin a test install
on my dual disk PowerMac G5 "quad" and I hope for wonderful things.
FWIW, I successfully tested those images myself on powerpc and sparc64.
Adrian
Works like a charm!
I simply used the default install option from the GRUB menu that
is provided by the installer and then followed the prompts. Not sure
what you changed but this time everything just flows naturally. Should
you wish I can redo the install and capture the syslog/partman files.
There are problems, of course, but they are with Debian as a whole
and not at all specific to the ppc64 installer or the ppc64 port. I will
move onwards to sparc64 and give that a whirl on some old sparc64 netra
unit.
Also, merely a sidenote, I did the following to achieve perfection:
1) boot the installer image
2) follow some prompts to get to a shell
3) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 count=1048576
4) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 count=1048576
5) power off the machine cold
6) wait 60 seconds and then boot the installer
That resulted in the partition stage simply flowing naturally along
with blank disks for sda and sdb.
--
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
GreyBeard and suspenders optional
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