Re: Updated installer images 2020-12-03
On 12/3/20 2:05 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I uploaded updated Debian installer CD images today.
>
> These come with the latest versions of the kernel and the debian-installer
> application as well as various other updates. The images can be found at
> the usual location [1] as well as the debian-installer for netboot [2].
>
> Known issues:
>
> - We still don't have support for contrib and non-free, so the images are
> missing non-free firmware. It is planned that the Debian Ports FTP server
> will be extended to support contrib and non-free but I don't have any
> influence on that as this is up to the Debian Ports FTP maintainers.
>
> So far, I have tested the images on sparc64 only. Please test on the other
> architectures and report back.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
>> [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2020-12-03/
>> [2] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-installer/2020-12-03/
>
Install on sparc64 went smoothly. Initial first boot hangs at some
systemd related process. I will try to get logs regarding that. I was
able to boot to single user mode and then from there to bring up the
server to full multi-user mode whereupon everything seems to "just work"
and that includes the improved and fixed gcc :
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97939
Surprised that bug was in the sparc64 world since at least gcc 7.3.0.
--
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
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