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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:07:22 -0800
Subject: Re: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: 
installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation 
faults]]
From: cymraeg...@gmail.com
To: rbtho...@pobox.com
CC: 562...@bugs.debian.org; 564...@bugs.debian.org; 
debian-b...@lists.debian.org; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org




On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote:



This bug is still present in the "Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010" businesscard CD 
downloaded from

  
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/

So far as I can tell, this bug has not been looked at by the debian-installer 
folks.

Is PowerPC simply so unimportant that resources cannot be spared to even *look* 
at a problem that renders the installer unusable on that hardware?



>From my experience


a) there is little point to the business card image. The netinstall is the good 
option.


b) daily builds are not necessarily supposed to work they are just for 
developers to share and try out ideas with.


c) try the weekly builds,


d) try testing, do a basic install and add unstable items with testing 
preferred. Unstable is not guaranteed to do anything except that (do I have 
this exactly right) certain very severe bugs cause it to reject moving to 
testing, after a short period of time the item either moves to testing or to 
experimental or nothing (in that particular version).


I am no DD I have just listened to the lists for a few years.


Brian






 I can confirm that this is bug is also present on the playstation 3. Starting 
the installation gives the looping segmentation fault message.
                                          
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