What about installing from a qemu or debbootstrap from a usb/chroot and do some OF trickery?
On Sun, 22 Sept 2024, 06:28 Ken Cunningham, <[email protected]> wrote: > So the key points are: > > 1. you have to use the special ISO, and no other ISO than the latest > special ISO should be used. Right now, I think you're still waiting to hear > which ISO that is. > 2. Do NOT believe any other website you might find or YouTube channel you > might find that claims to tell you how to install debian on PPC. I have not > yet seen a single one of them that has accurate information on it. > 3. use GRUB. Use all the default settings during the ISO installation. > Forget about triple booting into nine different operating systems. Give > debian the whole disk. > 4. the latest kernel is broken. Don't use it. You have to use the previous > working kernel instead, and not upgrade the kernel until the issue gets > sorted out. > 5. you have to manually install the firmware needed to support the > hardware. It's not installed by default as it is not free, so debian won't > bundle it. > 6. use a plugged-in ethernet connection. WIFI works, eventually, after a > lot of screwing around, but don't bother with it off the start. > 7. getting from the terminal display (text screen) to a whole GUI > graphical interface takes a while. There will be blood. Not all video cards > will work right. You will be sure you have set everything up right, but it > just won't work. And then you will discover some setting that wasn't right, > and it will finally work. And then you should never touch it again :> . > 8. be careful with large updates / upgrades. You can quite easily get > yourself into a situation where you have broken everything, and will see no > good path back to a working state. > > > Ken > > > > > On Sep 21, 2024, at 7:54 PM, Cedar Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Adrian, > > > Yes, I tried booting into the older kernel from GRUB. In fact, attempting > to load the latest kernel from the repositories causes the system to crash > back to Open Firmware, as discussed previously. > > > However, you mentioned that all further discussion should be based on a > known working image. Does the image I used fit this description? > On 9/20/24 01:06, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I went ahead and tried this one: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/ > > -- > Sincerely, > Cedar Maxwell > > >
