Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 03:26:30PM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 12:52:38 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > 
> > >  11.0.0 "Sid" Unofficial powerpc NETINST 20211006-11:28
> > 
> > That image is quite old.
> 
> It must have served a purpose a while ago, and this PowerBook is the only ARM
> device around, AFAICT. Hm. I'm pretty sure this was useful once.
> Another piece of junk then...
> 
>   Please use the following one:
> > 
> > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-06-18/debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso
> 
> Fortunately, the PB boots off a CR-RW... (but not a USB key), there
> are no "normal" writable CDs around anymore (but my desktop PC still
> has a writer)

You mean you can't buy new media?

That seems odd, my local computer store has CD-R, DVD-R and BD-R in
stock on the shelf, not special order of anything.  The rewritable discs
do seem to have gone away.

For how much longer though could be a good question.  Maybe they just
haven't run out of stock they got a long time ago.