On 4/13/20 4:07 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> So, I just used a more old image, like this one: >> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-04-11/ >> After install, I just added the experimental repository and did a apt update >> && apt upgrade! > > So that "just works"(tm) ??
The older images work because they use Yaboot. Newer images use GRUB which doesn't install properly yet on PowerMacs unless you do it manually. This is because Apple OpenFirmware implementation uses non-standard OF paths and the ofpathname utility needs to be expanded to understand the many exceptions and quiks of OpenFirmware like the ofpath tool found in Yaboot [1]. Fixing this is on my TODO list. It's not a hard task just lots of shell code writing and testing. If any volunteers would like to help, please step forward, I started that effort here [2]. FWIW, if you use the older images, you should skip the part where the installer wants to install additional software over the internet because that won't work due to the expired GPG key on the image. As for adding "exprimental" to the sources.list, this isn't necessary and also not recommended unless you want to test certain new packages. Please note that experimental is not a complete distribution but only works on top of unstable or testing. Adrian > [1] https://github.com/ibm-power-utilities/powerpc-utils/issues/30 > [2] > https://github.com/glaubitz/powerpc-utils/commit/4a3f51762fdd90112721e3c436973aec51beb95c -- .''`. 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
