Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2024-11-11

[Cedar Maxwell <cedarmaxwell@mac.com>]

Hello Adrian,

I successfully installed on my iBook G4 (PowerBook 6,7) using this image.

On 11/11/24 11:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have created a fresh set of ISO installation images for the following Debian Ports architectures:
>
> - alpha
> - hppa
> - loong64
> - powerpc
> - ppc64
> - sparc64
>
> The images can be downloaded from the usual location at [1].
>
> This batch includes the very first installation image for loong64. It has not been tested at all, so
> I'm looking forward to any feedback from testers.
>
> The images for powerpc and ppc64 are still not expected to work due to Debian bug #1085949 [2]. Luckily,
> IBM engineers have been able to reproduce the bug on ppc64el as well, so we can expect a fix in the
> near future.
>
> For m68k, it's currently harder to build installation images due to more packages requiring 4-byte alignment
> and the m68k developers still not having agreed on finally making the switch from 2-byte to 4-byte alignment.
>
> Adrian
>
> > [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2024-11-11/
> > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1085949
> >       
>     
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Sincerely,
Cedar Maxwell