Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure
On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 03:26:30PM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 12:52:38 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > >
> > > 11.0.0 "Sid" Unofficial powerpc NETINST 20211006-11:28
> >
> > That image is quite old.
>
> It must have served a purpose a while ago, and this PowerBook is the only ARM
> device around, AFAICT. Hm. I'm pretty sure this was useful once.
> Another piece of junk then...
>
> Please use the following one:
> >
> > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-06-18/debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso
>
> Fortunately, the PB boots off a CR-RW... (but not a USB key), there
> are no "normal" writable CDs around anymore (but my desktop PC still
> has a writer)
You mean you can't buy new media?
That seems odd, my local computer store has CD-R, DVD-R and BD-R in
stock on the shelf, not special order of anything. The rewritable discs
do seem to have gone away.
For how much longer though could be a good question. Maybe they just
haven't run out of stock they got a long time ago.
--
Len Sorensen
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