Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-07 Thread Marc Zyngier
Hi Adrian, On Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:19:30 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hello Marc! > > On 10/6/21 23:55, Marc Zyngier wrote: > > Finally got a chance to test this more thoroughly. It turns out that > > the install is failing because of my odd install method (dump the > > install im

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Marc! On 10/6/21 23:55, Marc Zyngier wrote: > Finally got a chance to test this more thoroughly. It turns out that > the install is failing because of my odd install method (dump the > install image on the disk, boot on it, overwrite the install media > with the install). Well, that can't w

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-06 Thread Marc Zyngier
Hi Adrian, On Wed, 06 Oct 2021 14:11:53 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi Marc! > > On 10/5/21 23:58, Marc Zyngier wrote: > > The installer then fails with: > > > > Oct 5 21:50:23 base-installer: error: exiting on error > > base-installer/no_codename

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Marc! On 10/5/21 23:58, Marc Zyngier wrote: > The installer then fails with: > > Oct 5 21:50:23 base-installer: error: exiting on error > base-installer/no_codename > > Oct 5 21:50:34 main-menu[283]: WARNING **:

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread Marc Zyngier
On Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:39:55 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hello! > > On 10/5/21 21:00, Marc Zyngier wrote: > >> Either way, I'm going to fix it. > > > > Awesome! > > Please try either of these images, they should fix both issues: > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/s

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/5/21 23:58, Marc Zyngier wrote:> There are some other problems, unfortunately. I get a warning about > the boot partition not being the first partition in the system (it > really looks like it is, but the installer may be confused by the > Apple partitioning system). I ignored it. As I said

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread Sante Nocciolino
Hello Adrian, sorry, no log, but I think there was something wrong in my partition table. I resolved deleting all partition on disk and reinstalling Debian . Il 05/10/2021 16:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: Hello Sante! On 10/5/21 15:35, Sante Nocciolino wrote: Tried to install on

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 10/5/21 21:00, Marc Zyngier wrote: >> Either way, I'm going to fix it. > > Awesome! Please try either of these images, they should fix both issues: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-10-05/ If you see a dialog box with a blank message, just answer . Adrian --

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread Marc Zyngier
On Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:36:58 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hello Marc! > > On 10/5/21 19:46, Marc Zyngier wrote: > > However, as the initrd doesn't contain the SATA driver, it is unable > > to mount the image where all the udeb for the kernel modules are, and > > at this point I wa

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 10/5/21 20:36, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Either way, I'm going to fix it. Fixed: > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/commit/6c7c4846451b3d89d7f75058a614610feb39fbee > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/commit/bfc78dfccd40e311207

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread Marc Zyngier
Hi Adrian, On Tue, 05 Oct 2021 18:54:15 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi Marc! > > On 10/5/21 19:46, Marc Zyngier wrote: > > It looks like we reached the same point in parallel! I also realise I > > should have given a few more details about my setup, because it isn't > > at all o

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Marc! On 10/5/21 19:46, Marc Zyngier wrote: > However, as the initrd doesn't contain the SATA driver, it is unable > to mount the image where all the udeb for the kernel modules are, and > at this point I was stuck. I just had a look at the debian-installer package lists and indeed, the sat

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread Marc Zyngier
On Tue, 05 Oct 2021 18:22:06 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi Marc! > > On 10/5/21 18:10, Marc Zyngier wrote: > > The very good news is that it boots all the way to the installer. > > The less good news is that it stops pretty quickly as none of the > > required drivers are actuall

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread Sante Nocciolino
Il 23/09/2021 11:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: Hi! I have just built and uploaded updated Debian Ports installation images. These images contain an updated apt-setup package which fixes the APT problem that occurred during installation with the 2021-09-21 images. I have performed a

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Marc! On 10/5/21 19:46, Marc Zyngier wrote: > It looks like we reached the same point in parallel! I also realise I > should have given a few more details about my setup, because it isn't > at all obvious from my email. > > The machine I use has no CDROM (it is what Apple used to call a > Clus

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Marc! On 10/5/21 18:10, Marc Zyngier wrote: > The very good news is that it boots all the way to the installer. > The less good news is that it stops pretty quickly as none of the > required drivers are actually in the install media. Not sure what installation media you used, but the CD-ROM im

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread Alex Perez
On 10/5/2021 9:16:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Marc! On 10/5/21 18:10, Marc Zyngier wrote: > Many thanks for keeping Debian alive on these old architectures. You're welcome. > I just dusted off my XServe-G5 (ppc64) and gave this snapshot a go. > > The very good news is that it b

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/5/21 19:02, Alex Perez wrote: > While you're at it, if you could also add SATA_SIL24 to the default build, > this is, by far, the most common legacy SATA PCI controller that's used in > legacy PCI-based PowerPC Macs. Not sure what you mean by default build. The sata_sil24 module is part of

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread Marc Zyngier
Hi Adrian, On 2021-09-23 10:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi! I have just built and uploaded updated Debian Ports installation images. These images contain an updated apt-setup package which fixes the APT problem that occurred during installation with the 2021-09-21 images. I have pe

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Marc! On 10/5/21 18:10, Marc Zyngier wrote: > Many thanks for keeping Debian alive on these old architectures. You're welcome. > I just dusted off my XServe-G5 (ppc64) and gave this snapshot a go. > > The very good news is that it boots all the way to the installer. > The less good news is t

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/5/21 16:33, Alex McKeever wrote: > I translated what Sante said the error message was via Google Translate: > The error is this: > "grub-install: error: the selected partition is not a PReP partition" Yes, I could have done that with Google Translate myself. But that error message is not hel

Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread Alex McKeever
I translated what Sante said the error message was via Google Translate: The error is this: "grub-install: error: the selected partition is not a PReP partition" I hope all is well, Adrian. Aside from trying to get X working on Linux in general (which I’ve failed to do so with my iMac G3 in both

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Sante! On 10/5/21 15:35, Sante Nocciolino wrote: > Tried to install on mac mini G4 > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-09-23/debian-11.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso > > but grub fails to install. The installation process reports it was not able > to install on /dev/sda3

Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! I have just built and uploaded updated Debian Ports installation images. These images contain an updated apt-setup package which fixes the APT problem that occurred during installation with the 2021-09-21 images. I have performed a successful test installation on sparc64 and will perform a t