On 4/5/19 11:00 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > So here is further odd behavior. At this point I am just going to dig in > and keep plugging away here. > > I fetched from : > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-01-27/debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso >
Carefulyl tested. It boots fine on a PowerMac G5 "quad" unit but not on a PowerMac G5 which is a dual socket PPC970FX unit. No idea why. I was able to get a very very basic install from the 2018 netinst but then I am stonewalled by the usual gpg signature issues : root@callisto:~# vi /etc/apt/sources.list root@callisto:~# apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease [242 kB] Get:2 http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-unstable InRelease [54.5 kB] Get:3 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unstable InRelease [47.1 kB] Get:4 http://incoming.ports.debian.org/buildd unstable InRelease [49.1 kB] Get:5 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased InRelease [52.4 kB] Get:6 http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-unstable/main Sources [37.5 kB] Err:3 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unstable InRelease The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY DA1B2CEA81DCBC61 Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable/main Sources [8735 kB] Err:5 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased InRelease The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY DA1B2CEA81DCBC61 Err:4 http://incoming.ports.debian.org/buildd unstable InRelease The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY DA1B2CEA81DCBC61 Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unstable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY DA1B2CEA81DCBC61 E: The repository 'http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unstable InRelease' is not signed. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. W: GPG error: http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY DA1B2CEA81DCBC61 E: The repository 'http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased InRelease' is not signed. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. W: GPG error: http://incoming.ports.debian.org/buildd unstable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY DA1B2CEA81DCBC61 E: The repository 'http://incoming.ports.debian.org/buildd unstable InRelease' is not signed. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. root@callisto:~# root@callisto:~# root@callisto:~# uname -a Linux callisto 4.16.0-1-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 4.16.5-1 (2018-04-29) ppc64 GNU/Linux root@callisto:~# root@callisto:~# cat /etc/debian_version buster/sid root@callisto:~# So .. that's nice. Not sure how to get around the need for that key. Dennis
