> I agree that this is a problem, there is actually a technical reason > for that which is the fact that the bootloader (or was it the > firmware?) is choking on the size of the installer image. > > I did create some images for testing: > > > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/netboot/ Will try, thanks! > This is the new standard debian-installer which uses GNU screen when > installing over a serial terminal. I was sure there were hints on how > to switch between the terminals. It's an improvement over the previous > design as you couldn't switch terminals over a serial connection at > all. Yes, screen keybindings do work, this is useful. > > * Installer still tells ext4 is unsupported for silo, that should not be > > a problem for years now? Actually, I may have hit a problem with silo - silos is not fining any files, no /etc/silo.conf, no /boon/vmlinuz or any other file. Comparing filesystem features - the news fs has 64bit and metadata_csum features that my working ext4 filesystems do not have. Will make more test to see if these are related. > SILO is being phased out and replaced with GRUB anyway. The reason why > we're still defaulting to SILO and not GRUB is because not all patches > by Eric Snowberg have been merged upstream yet and are hence part of > the package. > > See: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854568 Should it work on any sparc64? > > * Installer asks for mirror and there is no good information on the > > wiki. I derived host = deb.debian.org and directory = /debian-ports and > > it started downloading so seems correct. > > This is an issue with choose-mirror from debian-installer which does > not officially support Debian Ports at the moment. I added the key manually with apt-key add - and got past that step. > > So it seems the installer does not have relevant PGP key for this repo. > > > > Am I using wrong repo? Should I add some PGP key manually? Or is the > > March installer out of date with respect to current PGP keys after > > stretch was released? > > This was an issue in debian-cd and has been fixed: > > > https://.debian.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=debian-cd/debian-cd.git;a=commit;h=b6c7df147ab61ae42d97610b78e8480cb8b81e00 No actual hostname int he URL? -- Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
