Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Feb 10, 2021, at 4:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Two things you need to know: > > 1) The grub menu, that you see when the installer CD first boots up, offers > "expert" mode. If you're not familiar with it, this makes the install > process more granular, so you have more control over

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Feb 8, 2021, at 11:06 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > A small problem... > After install the machine reboots automatically. We are not given an > opportunity to stop the reboot. In fact, we are not even told a reboot > is going to happen. Maybe the installer needs a step that confirms the >

Bug#982359: util-linux: ppc64 toolchain creates huge binaries, possibly normal

2021-02-09 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Source: util-linux Version: 2.36-3 Severity: important X-Debbugs-CC: elb...@debian.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org The "oversized-chunk" test always fails on ppc64el. I guess the toolchain just likes to create overly large binaries? (Compared to other archs.) Version is set to the lowest one

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/9/21 10:51 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > It looks like the debian-installer folks are getting ready to provide > a new release of the installer > (https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/). Hopefully they will > take the feedback and address the issue before the next release of the > insta

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 4:51 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:41 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > > > > On Feb 9, 2021, at 8:37 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:21 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > > wrote: > > >> > > On Feb 9, 202

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:41 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > On Feb 9, 2021, at 8:37 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:21 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > wrote: > >> > On Feb 9, 2021, at 8:07 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >>> > >>> After install the machin