Debian "wheezy" install on Netra X1 done

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>]

The trick is to tell apt to just ignore the GPG authentication
issues entirely. During the install process there will be a failure
on a package and then just drop into a shell :


           cd /target/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/

Use the horrific nano editor and create a file "99unsecure" :

# cat  /target/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99unsecure
Acquire::AllowInsecureRepositories true;
Acquire::AllowDowngradeToInsecureRepositories true;
APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated true;


Then return to the installer and everything will go smoothly.

When the machine reboots it is not unreasonable to see the boot fail.
This is due to the boot-device firmware variable being wrong. No big
deal. Just do the boot from the list of nvalias output for your disk.

NOTE : do a full power off and cool down before booting

Now that the box runs an old old Debian version is there a path to
upgrade using some apt sources stuff ?

Currently it says :

nix#
nix# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
nix#

I am going to guess that there is a ports path to old package
repo locations where I can go upwards all the way towards sid
or whatever works.

The objective is to get to a reasonable state wherein I can
fetch build-essential stuff and apply the kernel patches.

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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken