Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-07-04

On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 at 01:03, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-07-04 for the
> following Debian Ports architectures:
>
>  * alpha
>  * hppa
>  * ia64
>  * m68k
>  * powerpc
>  * ppc64
>  * sh4
>  * sparc64
>
> I uploaded both CD images [1] as well as netboot images [2].
>
> Please test those images and report back over the mailing list for
> the corresponding architecture.
>

Thank you for producing these! I'm new today to hardware ports (though
I have been a debian hurd-i386 user for many years). I have
successfully used this ia64 image to install to my stylish combination
slim-line space heater and secure ambient noise generator.

It's an HP Integrity rx2620 with iLO MP and a single mckinley at 1.4
GHz and 6 GiB of RAM.

I had the same issue that Frank Scheiner had regarding vim-tiny on the
rx2660 (thank you Frank for the detailed explanation of your
experience).  This one was supremely frustrating as editing
bootstrap-base.postinst after the first install attempt and retrying
the install leads to failing to extract a .tar (file exists!) wheras
performing the partitioning step again would lead to the cdrom
becoming unmounted; and d-i would not give me the option to remount
the cdrom before continuing onto the next step until I restarted the
install in expert mode.  Editing the file before detecting disks
seemed to work however.

I have not tested running without the radeon module blacklisted; I
will do once I have the machine configured for use.