If you are looking for debian install walk through for PPC then checkout these two places.
http://ppcluddite.blogspot.com/ And http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.ca/2013/07/quick-and-dirty-light-and-fast.html Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 29, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Joel Roth <jo...@pobox.com> wrote: >> Graham Todd wrote: >>> I have recently obtained a Mac iBook G4 running OSX Tiger, and after >>> very good experiences >>> using Debian on a Windows laptop, I tried to get my head round the >>> instructions without success, I wonder if some kind soul could give me >>> easy instructions on how to install it on a Mac iBook G4. >> >> I found this: >> >> https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac > > Wow. That's old and not very informative. > > The link on that page to the installation guide does get you more > up-to-date information, however: > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ > > Shoot. That has a lot of old information in it, too. And I think all > the people who could update it are busy or have left, or both (like > me). > > Still, take the hour or two to scan through that and note the stuff > that seems to be PPC specific. You won't understand the openfirmware > notes, I suppose, but read them anyway. > >> cheers, >> >>> I dont have any Tiger installation disks > > Well, that's no fun. > > Does Tiger boot? Do you trust it not to have malware that would > install backdoors on Linux installation CDs? > > If you use Mac OS to download and burn he install CDs, you need to be > careful how you do it. The easy way to save an install imge to a CD > or DVD ends up just saving an install image to a CD or DVD. I think > you have similar problems on MSWindows systems. > > I think my memory tells me that you can right-click the image file and > get a menu that inlcudes the option to burn the image to disk. Or > select the image file and look in the menu bar menus for an entry that > says it will burn the image to disk. I think there's one other way, > but it's not coming to me, and, frankly, I'm demotivated to try > installing Jessie on my one remaining functional PPC Mac to remind > myself how. > > I think you can burn the install CD on a Linux system without too much > fuss. CDs are cheap enough, give it a try. > >>> and I'm not sure if any >>> specific versions of Debian are required. > > No. Any version that includes PPC should fly. I've done it with wheezy > and squeeze. > >>> I intent to partition the >>> hard drive for Debian only. > > That eases things up a bit. > >>> Can this be done > > Of course. > >>> and can easily understood instructions be referred to >>> to help me? > > Don't think too hard about it, for starters. > > Now that you've read the stuff on the debian site tell yourself it's > mostly old information. If you can get the network install image > burned on a CD properly, boot it with the magic keys. > > (What were those? oh, yeah, according to my ancient blog post about > doing this with Fedora on a clamshell, it's just holding the "C" key > down while the machine boots with the install CD in the CD drive. If > you are interested, that post is here: > > http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2009/05/fedora-on-old-clamshell-ibook.html > > It may explain some things, may confuse you with unnecesary information.) > > Once the installer is booted, just answer the questions. Since you > don't want to dual-boot, you really shouldn't have to pay too much > attention to things. Don't worry that it seems to need one or two more > partitions than it should, you won't run short of partitions. Don't > worry about openfirmware, the way they have it set up to relay through > the partitions should make booting automatic. > > Oh, there is a PowerPC list for debian. I'll cross-post this to it, to > save you some trouble finding it. > > And have fun. > >>> -- >>> >>> <b>Graham Todd</b> >> - >> Joel Roth > > -- > Joel Rees > > Be careful when you look at conspiracy. > Look first in your own heart, > and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy. > Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iOtyt8dkRk+pjm0x9yeiL=zahf6qjkuyfbvpsajyw_...@mail.gmail.com >
