On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 03:26:30PM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 12:52:38 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > > > 11.0.0 "Sid" Unofficial powerpc NETINST 20211006-11:28 > > > > That image is quite old. > > It must have served a purpose a while ago, and this PowerBook is the only ARM > device around, AFAICT. Hm. I'm pretty sure this was useful once. > Another piece of junk then... > > Please use the following one: > > > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-06-18/debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso > > Fortunately, the PB boots off a CR-RW... (but not a USB key), there > are no "normal" writable CDs around anymore (but my desktop PC still > has a writer)
You mean you can't buy new media? That seems odd, my local computer store has CD-R, DVD-R and BD-R in stock on the shelf, not special order of anything. The rewritable discs do seem to have gone away. For how much longer though could be a good question. Maybe they just haven't run out of stock they got a long time ago. -- Len Sorensen
