Hi, On Wed, 2021-12-15 at 09:53:16 +0100, Johannes Brakensiek wrote: > Am Dienstag, dem 14.12.2021 um 17:12 -0800 schrieb Rick Thomas: > > What is the URL for the latest Debian installer iso for a powerpc > > (32-bit, G4) macintosh? > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-10-20/ > > As far as I know you should be able to just run and install it. See my > note over here on how to boot from an USB stick. I don't know if a G4 > will be able to do that as well: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2021/01/msg00035.html
That's for G5, not G4? > Otherwise just burn a CD. Yet another one... > If you encounter any issues just tell here. Adrian is doing all the > hard work of making the port work (thanks again!). It seems there is > not much manpower left for updating the documentation at the ports > site. I don't even know how this works in this Debian universe… (if > it's kinda straight forward I may try to update some information at > some point…) I've followed this path for my Powerbook G4, and while installation from CD went surprisingly fine, I eventually got an error from the GRUB installer - which claimed not to be able to find /dev/sda3 :( I did a "chroot /target" and was able to "hexdump -C /dev/sda3", to prove that the disk wassn't stolen halfway through the install process... What might be missing? Another thought: Since the PBG4 cannot boot from USB (can it?), what about having a first-stage bootloader on CD that makes USB key drives available as a second stage? (Is this possible at all?) My stack of empty CDs is melting. Could I use CD-RWs? Thanks, Steffen
