Hi, the way to test an installation suggested by Frank Scheiner is much too complicated for me. I don't want to set up such an environment for some occasional tests. But I've got some spare SCSI disks, so I can simply try a real installation using a CD with a downloaded iso image. I tried it with the "debian-8.0-hppa-CD-1.iso" image and it works until it runs out of memory just before the partitioner should start. I could then start a shell, but all commands just say "Can't fork". 64MB may be sufficient for a preconfigured small kernel, but not for the installer, despite the "Low Memory" mode that it uses.
The "debian-10.0-hppa-NETINST-1" CD doesn't even start the installer. The boot process stops after these messages: Console: colour dummy device 160x64 console [tty0] enabled bootconsole [ttyB0] disabled Lothar -- Lothar Paltins [email protected]
