Hey Rick, Quick question, how do you manually enter repositories at installation? For me, it always defaults to selecting a preexisting, non-functional mirror off a list, and I never see any option to enter anything manually, like it does by default in the ppc64 installations.
Thanks, Noah On May 18, 2019, at 9:43 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > I’m trying to install Debian Jessie ppc64 8.11 on my PowerMac G5 > 7,3 machine for comparison purposes with Adrian’s 10.0 “ports”. > > I downloaded the PowerPC 8.11 DVD and used it to install a default > system. The only thing out of the ordinary was that I had to > manually enter the packages mirror name as “archive.debian.org” > since Jessie is no longer available on the normal mirror network. > > The installation ran to completion, finishing up with installing > yaboot on the hard disk. > > But when it tried to reboot into the installed system, it got to > “second level boot loader” and stopped with the blinking question- > mark folder icon. > > Does anybody have any ideas as to what’s going wrong? > > I can provide log files for the installation if you think they > would help. > > Thanks! > Rick
