Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-13 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Jun 14 2019, Finn Thain wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Andreas Schwab wrote: > >> On Jun 13 2019, Finn Thain wrote: >> >> > IMHO these log messages are a bit silly -- >> > >> > [**] (3 of 3) A start job is running for /dev/sda4 (1min 5s / 1min 36s) >> > ... >> > [ TIME ] Timed out waiting

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-13 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > > > ... It will be interesting to see how much more quickly you can boot > > this system using openrc or sysvinit. (I see that the 450 seconds > > logged here includes the 100 second delay caused by CONFIG_CRYPTO_DH; > > you can avoid that by add

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-13 Thread userm57
On 6/13/19 6:14 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > ... But there's still a problem, and I'll have to > keep investigating. Logins at the framebuffer console, serial console > and ssh all hang. Control-C cancels the login. On the serial console, > ... Sorry for the excessive messages. Logins appear

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-13 Thread userm57
On 6/12/19 11:45 PM, Finn Thain wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2019, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > >> On 6/10/19 9:32 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: >> ... >> Here are a few observations and comments: >> >> 1) Approximate times were as follows: >>a) 30 min - from initial setup to prompting of a Debian mir

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-13 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Jun 13 2019, Finn Thain wrote: > > > IMHO these log messages are a bit silly -- > > > > [**] (3 of 3) A start job is running for /dev/sda4 (1min 5s / 1min 36s) > > ... > > [ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device /dev/sda4. > > [DEPEND] Dependency

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-13 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Jun 13 2019, Finn Thain wrote: > IMHO these log messages are a bit silly -- > > [**] (3 of 3) A start job is running for /dev/sda4 (1min 5s / 1min 36s) > ... > [ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device /dev/sda4. > [DEPEND] Dependency failed for /dev/sda4. > [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Swap

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-13 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I'm no expert with the debian installer, but I suspect you should be > > using the initrd for the netinst method (?) > > There is no "netinst" initrd. There are initrds for "cdrom" and > "netboot". > > NETINST is a normal CD-ROM install

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 6/10/19 4:58 AM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > The post-installation initrd could be copied to MacOS and then specified > in Penguin, same as the installation initrd. Patches are welcome anytime. But currently, the installer for m68k does not have any support for installing a working bootloader on

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 6/10/19 3:14 AM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: >> Maybe you need to use a different initrd? There are several on the ISO. > > I see these: > ./cdrom/initrd.gz > ./hd-media/initrd.gz > ./nativehd/initrd.gz > > I used ./cdrom/initrd.gz. Which is the correct initrd for CD-ROM installations. The othe

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 6/10/19 2:11 AM, Finn Thain wrote: >> I tried twice using the stock CD-ROM drive and once using a more modern >> CD-ROM drive. In all three cases, installation of the basic system >> succeeded after about four hours, then stopped at the "Configure the >> package manager" menu -- "Your install

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 6/10/19 12:01 AM, Christian T. Steigies wrote: >> I tried leaving out the slash after debian-ports; apt-get still fails to >> find anything. Perhaps something failed to get installed or configured >> after the installation hung. > > I doubt that. Again, actual error messages would be helpful.

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 6/9/19 10:16 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > The mailing list seems to have munged my message, adding extra question > marks. I'm not sure why, maybe because my mail client formatted the > message in HTML instead of plain text (sorry about that). > > Anyway, here it is again, hopefully this wil