On 11/10/20 4:51 AM, Stan Johnson wrote: > Thanks for creating the 9 Nov 2020 CD. I was able to use that CD to > install Debian SID on a PPC Cube (G4) from an external Firewire CD > drive. Previous CDs had failed while detecting hardware to find the > installation media, and I had thought there was a problem with my > Firewire CD drive (the internal CD drive no longer works on this system).
It was not a hardware detection issue. It was the installer not being able to mount the CD-ROM because the "isofs" module was missing in the installers initrd. >> But for some reason partman (the partitioning tool) is hanging now. >> Adrian > > On my PPC Cube, partman didn't hang, but I only used it to choose > partitions that I had already created and to create ext3 filesystems. > > The installation proceeded normally, except that the installation of > GRUB failed (perhaps I need to create an HFS filesystem on my > Apple_Bootstrap partition first?). It would have been very nice if you had send me the installation log so we could have found out what the actual problem with grub-installer was. Now it's only wild guessing. 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
