Hello. I'm running a Late 2005 Power Mac G5 (11,2), and although the regular powerpc installer images may be fixed from most problems at this point (going off of other people's posted experiences), the newest netinstall ppc64 images from 2019-01-27 (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2 019-01-27/) are still unable to install the linux-image-powerpc64 package during normal (non-expert) installation, and when the installer gives you the notification of this, it quits the rest of the installation, leaving an incomplete base system.
The notification window itself displays "Unable to install the selected kernel" in red text at the top, with the description "An error was returned while trying to install the selected kernel into the target system." in regular black text. It specifies with "Kernel package: 'linux-image-powerpc64'." below, and adds "Check /var/log/syslog or see virtual console 4 for the details." at the end. It is accompanied by a blue backdrop instead of the usual red. Upon further inspection into virtual console 4 (Ctrl+Alt+F4), the last remaining written installer activity is displayed, a particular point of interest after the usual "Unpacking linux-image-4.19.0-2-powerpc64 (4.19.16-1) ...", being: "dpkg: error processing archive /media/cdrom//pool-ppc64/main/l/linux/linux-image-4.19.0-2- powerpc64_4.19.16-1_ppc64.deb (--unpack)", "Cannot copy extracted data for './boot/vmlinux-4.19.0-2-powerpc64' to '/boot/vmlinux-4.19.0-2- powerpc64.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on device)", "dpkg- deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)", "W: Last kernel image has been removed, so removing the default symlinks". It then goes on to normally select, prepare to unpack, and unpack linux-image-powerpc64, only to stop with "Errors were encountered while processing: /media/cdrom//pool-ppc64/main/l/linux/linux-image-4.19.0-2- powerpc64_4.19.16-1_ppc64.deb", "error: exiting on error base- installer/kernel/failed-install", "WARNING **: Configuring 'bootstrap- base' failed with error code 30", "WARNING **: Menu item 'bootstrap- base' failed.", ending there. Debian 7.11, 8.11, and the May 2018 Sid netinstall cd, all install onto this machine (given the same partition tables) without a hitch, along with Ubuntu Server 16.04.5. Though admittedly they were all of regular powerpc decent and not ppc64 as seen here. I had also tried the Debian 9 installer port for ppc64 (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/9.0 /ppc64/iso-cd/) and got the same result displayed here, so it appears this may be a longstanding issue among the ppc64 builds, at least from my point of view. Putting that aside, maybe something was overlooked in the ppc64 images specifically when building the new batches? To my knowledge, much of it should be synonymous with the regular powerpc builds, save for a 64-bit userspace over a 32-bit one, but of course, I'm not a developer. In any case, all is much appreciated. N
