Scroll the list of mirrors all the way to the top. (you can use the up-arrow key repeatedly, or the home key once) You’ll see an “enter manually” option there.
Rick > On May 19, 2019, at 10:24 AM, Noah Wolfe <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
