After updating m68k Debian SID to the latest version in QEMU and copying the resulting
filesystem to a Centris 650, I noticed that I could telnet or ssh to the system, but the
console had the wrong keymap. This can be fixed by deleting /etc/rcS.d/S04keyboard-setup.sh,
or it can be renamed to /etc/rcS.d/s04keyboard-setup.sh, which is what I recommend for the
unsupported Debian SID installation on m68k, if possible.
Of course, the init scripts are only relevant for sysvinit. Please note that I'm not trying(...)
to re-open a sysvinit vs. systemd discussion. Suffice it to say that I've found systemd to be
unusable on real m68k hardware (including a 25 MHz Centris 650 and a 40 MHz Mac IIfx). If systemd
works well enough for you, then that's great.
I do request that sysvinit continue to be available as a package in m68k Debian SID.
On a side note, I've also noticed that "apt get update" and "apt get upgrade" are also too slow
to be usable on real hardware, implying that most people who want to use Debian SID on real
hardware must do their updates on an emulator, such as QEMU, and be comfortable copying filesystems
from QEMU to real hardware. Maybe that's to be expected with any modern operating system, but I think
it's also possible that the limitations of real hardware are not seen in faster emulators, so
developers are not as aware of, or concerned with, performance issues that are only noticeable
using real hardware.
That said, as an experienced non-developer user, I appreciate all of the considerable effort that
everyone has put in to making modern GNU/Linux distributions work on old hardware. Thank you!
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/console-setup/-/commit/eb883af8c9b4dbbdc3a7ecee89cc06600ac27584
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