John Paul Adrian Glaubitz reported on this list on Tue, 18 Mar 2025
14:50:11 +0100 the availability for new ISO images for installation of
Debian 12 on several CPU architectures listed at
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-03-16/
I pulled down the new images for HPPA and SPARC64 this morning, and so
far, have been able to try only the 32-bit HPPA installation. I'll
work on 64-bit HPPA and SPARC after I return from a trip.
I adapted the installer script for my older Debian 12 HPPA-32 VM for
the new one, and started the installer.
I'm using an EXT4 filesystem with the default partitioning, and the
latest release of QEMU, 9.2.2, that I built from source code on
8-Mar-2025.
That ran normally until the point where I should select the menu item
Install the system
After choosing that item, I got a new window with a progress bar, but
it died a few seconds later, after reporting that it was 1% into the
task.
I shutdown the VM, created a new disk image, and this time tried the
EXT3 filesystem. It too died in the installer window.
A third attempt with JFS did the same.
A fourth attempt with XFS did the same too, but this time, on a hunch,
I used down-arrow to move to the next menu item
Configure the package manager
That then asked whether I wanted a full install, or a minimal system.
I chose the minimal system, and that successfully completed the
installation, and the new VM is now up with the 6.12.17 kernel, 6
CPUs, and 3.75GB disk.
To allow interested list members to reproduce my experience, here is
the core of my installer script; the disk image is created by
"qemu-image create -f qcow2" with a size of 80GB, which has usually
been adequate for extensive software testing, including annual builds
of TeX Live documented at
https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/.
% cat install-debian-12-hppa32-2.sh
#! /bin/sh -
ARCH=hppa
PATH=/usr/uumath/ashare/qemu/qemu-9.2.2/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
export PATH
ISO=/local/iso/debian-12.0.0-hppa-NETINST-1.iso
VMDIR=/local/images/debian-12-hppa32-2
cd ${VMDIR}
QEMU_VM=`which qemu-system-${ARCH}`
${QEMU_VM} \
-m 3.75G \
-nographic \
-serial mon:stdio \
-smp cpus=1 \
-drive file=${ISO},media=cdrom \
-drive file=${VMDIR}/debian-12-hppa32-2.qcow2,format=qcow2 \
-initrd ${VMDIR}/install-initrd.gz \
-kernel ${VMDIR}/install-vmlinuz-6.12.17-parisc \
-append "root=/dev/sda5" \
-boot order=c
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