On 4/5/19 2:56 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/5/19 8:06 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Right .. I found an older email post by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz which >> clarified that for me. However that doesn't work as a gpg key is needed >> which can be handled due to the fact that gpg does not exist in the >> system. > > It's more likely that the GPG has simply expired because you're using an > old image. Is there any reason you're not using the current image? >
I am trying a re-install now from the netinst image I have. Which is not very old. From just last year. It is a broken process. The debian mirror can not be selected nor entered manually. Also on the console (tty from hitting F4 key) is where I see that the installer doesn't even go after the correct release name. The url that it seems to think we need has "buster" in it. So that is wrong also. I did try the basic installer but it doesn't work because networking is not setup correctly. It attempts DHCP and then does nothing when there is not a DHCP server handy. There is no method to set a static ip other than to open a tty session and manually do so with ip commands. I do that and the network config is lost to the installer and on first boot I have to manually setup things again. Regardless the mirror for packages is still wrong from the installer. Maybe there is a way to just scrap all this and start over with a more up to day ( yesterday? ) netinst image. It is worth at least trying. Dennis PS: I have to "shave the yak" to install Debian on ppc64. https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/
