Using Aranym, I booted the kernel binary from the 2019-05-24 ISO with these parameters: debian-installer/framebuffer=false initcall_blacklist=dh_init
I found that the arrow keys stopped working after I selected the American English keymap (this step can be skipped). It turns out that ctrl-P and ctrl-N are substitutes for up-arrow and down-arrow keys. I also found that the old installer bug which prevents CD-ROM drive detection on Atari is still there. I had to spawn a shell to run these commands: # modprobe pata-falcon # modprobe isofs # mount /dev/sr0 /cdrom Then the "Detect and mount CD-ROM" step then worked. (You can use falconide and /dev/hdX instead.) I had to select "no network card" after network detection failed. There's probably some issue with my Aranym config; I never resolved this. With those workarounds I was able to "install the base system". As with the Mac installation, the console-setup package changed the framebuffer console font and mangled the window borders. You can see the terminus font problem in this screenshot: https://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2019/06/msg00019.html The next steps in the installation ("configure the package manager", "select and install software") seemingly aren't possible without a network connection, so I skipped to "proceed without bootloader" which completed successfully. I was able to use the installed initrd and kernel to boot the new system once I figured out that root=/dev/nfhdXpY. But that isn't going to work outside of Aranym. The system should be bootable using root=/dev/sdXY but this doesn't work because the initrd fails to load the modules (pata-falcon, atari_scsi etc.) I found that the installer didn't list any modules in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules. HTH. --
