On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 03:25:41PM -0600, [email protected] wrote: > Hi Christian, > > On 6/9/19 3:09 PM, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > ... > > > > I haven't booted an m68k machine in a while, so I am not too qualified to > > comment on the current setup. I am impressed by the effort you put in, it > > seems you are very close to a working system. > > Yes, thanks. I believe I could get it working by manually downloading > the packages that I need, move them over to the new installation using > Debian 3.1 and then installing them in Debian 10/sid.
Yes. Or by using debootstrap, maybe even from another architecture. > I tried leaving out the slash after debian-ports; apt-get still fails to > find anything. Perhaps something failed to get installed or configured > after the installation hung. I doubt that. > Alternately, if there is a way to restart the installation, skipping the > step where it asks whether any additional CDs or DVDs should be read, > that might also work. Otherwise, I can probably get it working well > enough by manually installing what I need, though I'm not sure yet how > to fix the keymap issue on the VGA console. I don't think you can continue an installation, but maybe thats a new feature. There are always news things to learn. I am a bit confused by the layout of the ports mirror. It seems the m68k debs are in this directory: http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-m68k/main/ But there is also this directory, that I thought that would be used for finding debs (this contains only all.debs?): http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool/main/ On the official mirrors, I do not see the arch in the name of the pool directory, ie this has debs for different arches: http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bash/ Maybe that is a new feature (that your apt does not support) or something is broken with the ports server, which I doubt. Adrian will tell us? Maybe you can try to add this to your sources.list: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main (yes, with a trailing slash is what I use, works on my notebook). You will not find m68k.debs there, but it should give you access to all.debs, so you could try to apt install a doc package (bash-doc) or debhelper (which will fail because it depends on more packages), but maybe it can give you a clue where the problem lies. In /var/lib/dpkg and /var/cache/apt you might find some info which packages are available for installation. Good luck! Christian
