On 12/3/20 2:05 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > I uploaded updated Debian installer CD images today. > > These come with the latest versions of the kernel and the debian-installer > application as well as various other updates. The images can be found at > the usual location [1] as well as the debian-installer for netboot [2]. > > Known issues: > > - We still don't have support for contrib and non-free, so the images are > missing non-free firmware. It is planned that the Debian Ports FTP server > will be extended to support contrib and non-free but I don't have any > influence on that as this is up to the Debian Ports FTP maintainers. > > So far, I have tested the images on sparc64 only. Please test on the other > architectures and report back. > > Thanks, > Adrian > >> [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2020-12-03/ >> [2] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-installer/2020-12-03/ >
Install on an old PowerMac quad went smoothly however the system will not boot. I merely see the flashing Mac symbol in the center of the blank screen where it seems there is no bootable filesystem found. I did use the "guided" partition approach. Somewhat mystified by this result. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
