Hi, Alper Nebi Yasak <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22/05/2020 15:22, Holger Wansing wrote: > > in the installation-guide, arm64 has the "bootable-usb" option set. > > That leads to this chapter being included in the manual: > > https://d-i.debian.org/doc/installation-guide/en.arm64/ch04s03.html > > > > Is this true for arm64? > > When I write netboot mini.iso images or CD images to a USB drive they > work fine on a QEMU aarch64 VM with EFI firmware. > > But I couldn't easily create new partitions (for firmware) on the disk: > - Gparted thinks the whole disk is iso9660 so it won't even try > - Gnome Disks thinks it's MBR but fails to create a new partition > - fdisk worked, but breaks the iso9660 part unless I pass "--wipe never" > > > At least the hd-media/boot.img.gz (mentioned in chapter 4.3.2) is not > > existing > > on the mirrors for arm64 ... > > The hd-media configuration isn't enabled for arm64 yet, I'll probably > work on enabling it eventually. It's enabled on armhf, but there it has > an hd_media.tar.gz and "concatenateable images" (which may be analogous > to that boot.img.gz). That's probably how it'd be on arm64 hd-media as well. > > See: > https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/hd-media/SD-card-images/ > https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/daily/netboot/SD-card-images/ > > Other than that, it looks like 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 are already missing most > of the instructions (compared to the amd64 version), so I don't think > those two make sense in their current form.
thanks for your comments! So I have left out that chapters for arm64 now. It would be great, if someone from debian-arm could update the information in the manual then. Holger -- Holger Wansing <[email protected]> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
