Hi Adrian, I used debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST.iso with the date 2023-05-16. I downloaded this from cdimage.debian.org. When I burned it to a cd it didn’t boot. When I tried a dvd it did boot. I’m assuming that it’s the latest image. I ended up doing 6 installations overall, for testing purposes and it worked well.
As for Firefox thanks for the info, hopefully it will get fixed as it would make ppc64 still very useable in this modern era. > On 8 Apr 2024, at 19:09, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Hello, > >> On Mon, 2024-04-08 at 17:19 +1200, Mike Hosken wrote: >> I just wanted to give some feedback on the install of ppc64 on a Mac G5. >> >> I had a few issues when installing the latest version. > > Which image did you use? The latest snapshot image is known to not boot on > PowerMac G5, so I'm doubtful you were actually using the latest > >> Grub install fails when not installing standard system utilities through >> tasksel during installation. I’m not sure if packages are required for ppc64 >> grub install from standard system utilities but I thought I’d mention it. > > Without knowing what image was used, I cannot really comment here. > >> During installation, upgrading via ports archive dpkg throws up an error with >> the start stop daemon not being able to write to the directory. After >> installation >> upon reboot dpkg is broken because of this. The fix was simple and upon >> reinstall >> dpkg works as expected. > > I have run into this issue during a test installation as well, but I have not > figured > out yet what the problem is. > >> I installed xfce and noticed Firefox failed to launch with segmentation >> errors also >> the esr version does the same. Upon further research I discovered others >> also have >> this problem. > > The Firefox issue is a known upstream bug: > >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1845669 > >> I tried building both versions from Sid but they both failed to build. Is >> there a fix for this issue ? > > Both firefox and firefox-esr built successfully on ppc64 16 days ago: > >> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=firefox&arch=ppc64&ver=124.0.1-1&stamp=1711164847&raw=0 >> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=firefox&arch=ppc64&ver=124.0.1-1&stamp=1711164847&raw=0 > >> I’d like to thank the maintainers for keeping the ports going on 20 year old >> hardware. > > You're welcome. I'm glad my work is useful to others. > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer > `. `' Physicist > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
