Re: Updated installer images

[Witold Baryluk]

Hi John. Thanks a lot for these images for alpha, I will be trying them
soon probably, as I was unlucky with some previous ones. :)

Thanks.


2017-09-10 21:35 GMT+02:00 Anatoly Pugachev :

> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Christoph Biedl
>  wrote:
> > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote...
> >
> >> Please test and report back on the individual architecture
> >> mailing lists
> >
> > So far, the ride for ppc64 has been *extremely* painful. This is not
> > necessarly due to your efforts, but it feels a lot like nobody ever has
> > tried to set up Debian on a G5 using netboot.
> >
> > So far (might be incomplete, and I'm both tired and fairly upset):
> >
> > * Any reasonable documentation on this anywhere? No about how to set up
> >   DHCP/TFTP server, I've done this many time. But what about which files
> >   are needed, and how to provide a netboot-adjusted yaboot.conf, and
> >   mostly: How to make yaboot make using it?
> >
> > * The OF bootloader needs two rounds to load yaboot.
> >
> > * yaboot should either get a decent on-line help or see bitrot.
> >
> > * yaboot's "conf /path/to/config" command, when initially using netboot,
> >   happiliy ignores the file name but retrieves 01-xx-yy-xx-yy-xx-yy
> >   using TFTP instead.
> >
> > * After a lot of trickery, the installer's vmlinux now gets loaded. At a
> >   whopping 6 kbyte/sec (yes: six kilobytes). Just to remind you, kernel
> >   and initrd take some 35 megabytes, and the G5 has already turned to
> >   airplane mode. My neighbors will love me.
> >
> > This isn't getting anywhere useful soon.
>
> I was able to install netboot sparc64 ldom (but not latest sid version
> , which is too big to load by OBP. There's also #645657 debian bug,
> but somehow it got closed).
>
> Also, installed ppc64 LPAR, failed to install yaboot and using grub2
> on Power8 server, but that installation wasn't netboot, but usual
> iso/cdrom install.
>
> I could probably try to install test ppc64 lpar with netboot just to
> check how it will go, but i need to know where do i get netboot image,
> since https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/ does not have netboot
> images.
>
> Thanks
>
>


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Re: Updated installer images

[Anatoly Pugachev]

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Christoph Biedl
 wrote:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote...
>
>> Please test and report back on the individual architecture
>> mailing lists
>
> So far, the ride for ppc64 has been *extremely* painful. This is not
> necessarly due to your efforts, but it feels a lot like nobody ever has
> tried to set up Debian on a G5 using netboot.
>
> So far (might be incomplete, and I'm both tired and fairly upset):
>
> * Any reasonable documentation on this anywhere? No about how to set up
>   DHCP/TFTP server, I've done this many time. But what about which files
>   are needed, and how to provide a netboot-adjusted yaboot.conf, and
>   mostly: How to make yaboot make using it?
>
> * The OF bootloader needs two rounds to load yaboot.
>
> * yaboot should either get a decent on-line help or see bitrot.
>
> * yaboot's "conf /path/to/config" command, when initially using netboot,
>   happiliy ignores the file name but retrieves 01-xx-yy-xx-yy-xx-yy
>   using TFTP instead.
>
> * After a lot of trickery, the installer's vmlinux now gets loaded. At a
>   whopping 6 kbyte/sec (yes: six kilobytes). Just to remind you, kernel
>   and initrd take some 35 megabytes, and the G5 has already turned to
>   airplane mode. My neighbors will love me.
>
> This isn't getting anywhere useful soon.

I was able to install netboot sparc64 ldom (but not latest sid version
, which is too big to load by OBP. There's also #645657 debian bug,
but somehow it got closed).

Also, installed ppc64 LPAR, failed to install yaboot and using grub2
on Power8 server, but that installation wasn't netboot, but usual
iso/cdrom install.

I could probably try to install test ppc64 lpar with netboot just to
check how it will go, but i need to know where do i get netboot image,
since https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/ does not have netboot
images.

Thanks

Re: Updated installer images

[Christoph Biedl]

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote...

> Please test and report back on the individual architecture
> mailing lists

So far, the ride for ppc64 has been *extremely* painful. This is not
necessarly due to your efforts, but it feels a lot like nobody ever has
tried to set up Debian on a G5 using netboot.

So far (might be incomplete, and I'm both tired and fairly upset):

* Any reasonable documentation on this anywhere? No about how to set up
  DHCP/TFTP server, I've done this many time. But what about which files
  are needed, and how to provide a netboot-adjusted yaboot.conf, and
  mostly: How to make yaboot make using it?

* The OF bootloader needs two rounds to load yaboot.

* yaboot should either get a decent on-line help or see bitrot.

* yaboot's "conf /path/to/config" command, when initially using netboot,
  happiliy ignores the file name but retrieves 01-xx-yy-xx-yy-xx-yy
  using TFTP instead.

* After a lot of trickery, the installer's vmlinux now gets loaded. At a
  whopping 6 kbyte/sec (yes: six kilobytes). Just to remind you, kernel
  and initrd take some 35 megabytes, and the G5 has already turned to
  airplane mode. My neighbors will love me.

This isn't getting anywhere useful soon.

Christoph


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Updated installer images

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi!

I have generated an updated set of debian-installer images for
Debian Ports which also now includes alpha [1].

I have fixed the installation issues on hppa and sparc64, in
both cases the bootloader installer was missing.

ppc64 has still some issues with the partition manager, but I'm
working on fixing that.

Please test and report back on the individual architecture
mailing lists, i.e. please don't post to debian-ports@l.d.o
as this reaches the mailing lists of all ports.

Adrian


[1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/


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