Probably not news.
Saw this ...
ppc64#
ppc64# uname -a
Linux hydra 5.0.11-genunix #1 SMP Fri May 3 21:37:21 UTC 2019 ppc64
GNU/Linux
ppc64# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease [55.3 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports sid/main all Packages
[8,447 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports sid/main ppc64 Packages
[21.7 MB]
Fetched 30.2 MB in 11s (2,816 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
ppc64# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
apt apt-utils base-files bind9-host bison curl dbus dbus-user-session
debconf debconf-i18n dirmngr distro-info-data dpkg dpkg-dev
e2fsprogs gnupg gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client
gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm gpgv grub-common grub-ieee1275
grub-ieee1275-bin grub2-common krb5-locales libapt-inst2.0
libapt-pkg5.0 libbind9-161 libbison-dev libcom-err2 libcryptsetup12
libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4 libdbus-1-3 libdns-export1104 libdns1104
libdpkg-perl libelf1 libext2fs2 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx
libglapi-mesa libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libglx-mesa0 libgnutls30
libgssapi-krb5-2 libicu63 libisc-export1100 libisc1100
libisccc161 libisccfg163 libk5crypto3 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0
liblwres161 libnewt0.52 libnspr4 libnss-systemd libnss3
libpam-systemd libsqlite3-0 libss2 libssl-dev libssl1.1 libsystemd0
libudev1 linux-libc-dev lsb-base lsb-release manpages
manpages-dev nano openjdk-11-jre openjdk-11-jre-headless openssl
publicsuffix python3-debconf python3-debian systemd systemd-sysv
task-ssh-server tasksel tasksel-data udev vim-common vim-tiny
whiptail xxd
94 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 100 MB of archives.
After this operation, 330 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
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Setting up apt-utils (1.8.2) ...
Setting up gpg-agent (2.2.13-2) ...
Installing new version of config file
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/gpg-agent ...
Setting up grub2-common (2.02+dfsg1-19) ...
Setting up gpgsm (2.2.13-2) ...
Setting up libgl1-mesa-dri:ppc64 (18.3.6-2) ...
Setting up e2fsprogs (1.45.2-1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.d/e2scrub_all ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
e2scrub_all.service is a disabled or a static unit not running, not
starting it.
Setting up libnss3:ppc64 (2:3.44+really3.42.1-2) ...
Setting up vim-tiny (2:8.1.0875-5) ...
Setting up grub-ieee1275-bin (2.02+dfsg1-19) ...
Setting up dpkg-dev (1.19.7) ...
Setting up dirmngr (2.2.13-2) ...
Setting up dbus-user-session (1.12.16-1) ...
Setting up libgssapi-krb5-2:ppc64 (1.17-3) ...
Setting up gpg-wks-server (2.2.13-2) ...
Setting up libcurl4:ppc64 (7.64.0-4) ...
Setting up curl (7.64.0-4) ...
Setting up grub-ieee1275 (2.02+dfsg1-19) ...
Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 platform.
/usr/sbin/ofpathname: line 812: warning: command substitution: ignored
null byte in input
Installation finished. No error reported.
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinux-5.0.11-genunix
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.0.11-genunix
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinux-4.19.0-4-powerpc64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-4-powerpc64
done
Setting up libdns1104:ppc64 (1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5) ...
Setting up libglx-mesa0:ppc64 (18.3.6-2) ...
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Anyways a reboot simply results in ye blinking Apple icon of desperation
wherein no OS could be found. So that was the end of that.
May go looking for the most recent netinst which "works".
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
GreyBeard and suspenders optional
