Re: Updated installer images

Hi John. Thanks a lot for these images for alpha, I will be trying them
soon probably, as I was unlucky with some previous ones. :)

Thanks.


2017-09-10 21:35 GMT+02:00 Anatoly Pugachev <[email protected]>:

> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Christoph Biedl
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote...
> >
> >> Please test and report back on the individual architecture
> >> mailing lists
> >
> > So far, the ride for ppc64 has been *extremely* painful. This is not
> > necessarly due to your efforts, but it feels a lot like nobody ever has
> > tried to set up Debian on a G5 using netboot.
> >
> > So far (might be incomplete, and I'm both tired and fairly upset):
> >
> > * Any reasonable documentation on this anywhere? No about how to set up
> >   DHCP/TFTP server, I've done this many time. But what about which files
> >   are needed, and how to provide a netboot-adjusted yaboot.conf, and
> >   mostly: How to make yaboot make using it?
> >
> > * The OF bootloader needs two rounds to load yaboot.
> >
> > * yaboot should either get a decent on-line help or see bitrot.
> >
> > * yaboot's "conf /path/to/config" command, when initially using netboot,
> >   happiliy ignores the file name but retrieves 01-xx-yy-xx-yy-xx-yy
> >   using TFTP instead.
> >
> > * After a lot of trickery, the installer's vmlinux now gets loaded. At a
> >   whopping 6 kbyte/sec (yes: six kilobytes). Just to remind you, kernel
> >   and initrd take some 35 megabytes, and the G5 has already turned to
> >   airplane mode. My neighbors will love me.
> >
> > This isn't getting anywhere useful soon.
>
> I was able to install netboot sparc64 ldom (but not latest sid version
> , which is too big to load by OBP. There's also #645657 debian bug,
> but somehow it got closed).
>
> Also, installed ppc64 LPAR, failed to install yaboot and using grub2
> on Power8 server, but that installation wasn't netboot, but usual
> iso/cdrom install.
>
> I could probably try to install test ppc64 lpar with netboot just to
> check how it will go, but i need to know where do i get netboot image,
> since https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/ does not have netboot
> images.
>
> Thanks
>
>


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