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  • Updated Debian Ports installation images

    From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 18 19:00:02 2022
    Hello!

    I have created the first set of installation images in 2022, these are available at the usual location in [1].

    The ISO image for sparc64 has been verified to work correctly, I don't
    know about the other architectures, however.

    I have also created the first images which include non-free firmware packages but these are completely untested and firmware installation might not work correctly as DEP-11 information is not available on the Debian Ports mirrors.

    The non-free images can be found here [2].

    Adrian

    [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/
    [2] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/non-free/

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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Ulrich Teichert on Sun Mar 20 20:30:01 2022
    Hi Ulrich!

    On 3/20/22 20:22, Ulrich Teichert wrote:
    I tried the basic image on a miata with mixed success. I could boot it,
    but the devices on the QLA1040 SCSI controler were not detected - which is the build-in SCSI controler on that machine type, so I could not even mount the CD from which I booted, nor any of the disks. It could not load the firmware - OK, I so tried the non-free image, but it failed with the same error:

    ...
    qla1280: QLA1040 found on PCI bus 1, dev 4
    qla1280 0000:01:04.0: firmware: failed to load qlogic/1040.bin (-2)
    ...

    The firmware images are missing the files in the firmware folder which contain information about matching hardware IDs with firmware. Consequently, the firmware
    is not loaded automatically.

    However, the firmware packages are still on the CD, located in

    pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree

    Maybe you can try installing the packages manually until we have sorted out the issue with the meta-data.

    Adrian

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