Hi Stan! On Tue, 2023-05-30 at 17:30 -0600, Stan Johnson wrote: > 1) During installation, I deselected X desktop and Xfce and added > ssh-server. Please add a disk partitioner to the default base > installation. Either parted or mac-fdisk would work (I used apt-get to > install both).
The package lists are not architecture-specific. If you want certain packages to be installed by default, you need to file a bug against parted and get the package's priority to be changed from "optional" to "standard" [1]. > 2) Partition /dev/sda2 above is the bootstrap partition. Its type should > be Apple_Bootstrap instead of Apple_HFS. Either way it's an HFS > partition, but as type Apple_HFS, it won't be distinguished from any > other HFS partition in Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X (though of course neither of > those is installed here). Partitioning is done by the partman-auto package here in [2]. Don't know whether it's possible to change the partition type to »Apple_Bootstrap« there [2]. If someone can do the work and read the documentation, I am happy to make the necessary changes to partman-auto or related packages. > 3) The mounted filesystems include /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda2: > > # df -k > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > udev 498148 0 498148 0% /dev > tmpfs 102116 432 101684 1% /run > /dev/sda3 121257500 1064744 113987020 1% / > tmpfs 510568 0 510568 0% /dev/shm > tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock > /dev/sda2 249988 11296 238692 5% /boot/grub > tmpfs 102112 0 102112 0% /run/user/0 > tmpfs 102112 0 102112 0% /run/user/1000 > > IMO, /boot/grub should only be mounted when GRUB is being updated or > installed. That would require adding a corresponding hook to the GRUB package, probably in the »update-grub« script [3]. Not sure whether the maintainers of the »grub2« package would want that in Debian. > If the system crashes, /dev/sda2 could become corrupt, and I > don't see an "fsck.hfs" or equivalent to fix it in Debian. Uhm, the package »hfsprogs« exists in Debian and has been the focus of this week's discussion on the debian-powerpc mailing list. The reason why it's not installed by default is Apple's APSL license which makes everything much more complicated. > Users could add "noauto" to the /etc/fstab line for /boot/grub and manually > mount > /boot/grub only when updates are needed. Or maybe the grub* executables > in /usr/sbin could look for an Apple_Bootstrap partition and mount it > automatically if one is found. As I said above, this would require PowerMac-specific modifications to the »grub2« package. Remember, we're not maintaining »Debian Linux Apple PowerMac« but a port of »Debian Linux« for 32- and 64-bit PowerPC which also happens to run on Apple PowerMac. We don't own the codebase exclusively, so we can't just make everything to suit our needs. > 4) Selecting the GNU GRUB icon from the Apple boot selector (holding the > option key at boot) doesn't work (the screen just goes blank). Booting > works as expected using the GRUB menu. Works for me on my iBook G4. Might be an issue with the old firmware in your PowerBook Pismo. Adrian > [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities > [2] > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-auto/-/blob/master/recipes-powerpc-powermac_newworld/atomic > [3] https://salsa.debian.org/grub-team/grub/-/blob/master/debian/update-grub -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
