On 12/04/2017 07:45 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >> Looks good. But as I said, I don't know for how long Yaboot will >> be around as it's currently being replaced. > > No problem for me as long as GRUB will have some usable option to > boot a ppc installer from inside OF, as yaboot perfectly seems to do.
The problem with Yaboot is that it is completely unmaintained. For example, it doesn't work with modern ext4 features, so in order to boot from an ext4 partition with Yaboot, you need to format ext4 with several features turned off. Alternatively, use a separate /boot partition formatted as ext2/3. > It's really cumbersome to first have to burn an installer image to some > CD instead of being able to quickly pipe such an image to a thumb drive > and use it ... Yes, that should be eventually possible with GRUB as well. >>> Thanks a lot to everyone involved for the ppc ports installer >> >> That's quite a lot of people, actually :). >> >> Btw, please join #debian-ports on OFTC if you haven't already. > > I've just been via "mibbit": on > irc://irc.debian.org/debianppc > I didn't see anyone in that room tho' .... > > here I was: > irc://irc.mibbit.net/debian-ports > > I'll be back as I know about the X environment I'll install. Did you check #debian-ports on OFTC? You have to be on the correct IRC network, the channel name alone isn't enough. > Plus: the firmware I'd like to load into the installer environment: the > installer yesterday was complaining about missing firmware, IIRC. But > actually I'd guess this can done (and skipped at install time) on a > fully installed system by simply installing the "firmware-linux-nonfree" > package. Yes, you can install the firmware package later. We currently don't include firmware in Debian Ports installation images. We can change that at some point if people actually need that. > But anyways: I just downloaded > http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-nonfree_20170823.orig.tar.xz > I'll try load that onto a second USB thumb drive and see whether the > installer can handle it .... ;) Should work, I think. But I never tried that. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
