Hi, On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 02:16:19PM -0600, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > The mailing list seems to have munged my message, adding extra question > marks. I'm not sure why, maybe because my mail client formatted the > message in HTML instead of plain text (sorry about that). > > Anyway, here it is again, hopefully this will be more readable.
Much better :-) > And BTW, I'm not complaining about anything or suggesting that anyone > isn't working very hard to provide a working GNU/Linux system forancient > hardware. I'm just trying to figure out why it's not working and > whether I'm doing something wrong. Thanks to all for your efforts. I haven't booted an m68k machine in a while, so I am not too qualified to comment on the current setup. I am impressed by the effort you put in, it seems you are very close to a working system. > installer that hung). The network is up, and apt-get works, but it > doesn't find anything, even after > adding these two lines to /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ sid main > deb-src http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ sid main > > Looking in a normal web browser, packages appear to be available in > "http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-m68k/main/";, but apt-get > doesn't appear to see > anything. Maybe there's a simple error in my sources.list? Quite possible, the format is quite picky. Did you try to leave out the slash after debian-ports? See: https://wiki.debian.org/M68k/Installing The page may be outdated, but it does not show a slash after debian-ports and before unstable/unreleased: pick your favourite Debian unofficial ports mirror (weâll be using ãhttp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-portsã) deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports unstable main deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased main Christian
