Am 2016-01-07 um 17:43 schrieb Lennart Sorensen: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 04:45:16PM +0100, Richard Kuenz wrote: >> Hello , >> >> can someone please help me to install Wheezy on a Powermac G5? >> >> >> When i boot in open firmware >> >> and then do >> >> >> boot cd:,install yaboot >> >> >> it says alwys "cd not found" > I was under the impression that you just hold down 'c' while turning it > on and it will boot from the optical drive automatically. > > Any reason to not just do that? >
Or simply hold the option key. It looks like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_key At the chime, hold it, and don't release it until you see a screen with cursor. Then you can let go of the key, wait until the Mac has discovered all bootable options (may take quite a while, because it will also look for network boot options) and finally select the debian installation CD/DVD (the one with the penguin). While on the firmware boot selection screen, you can use the Eject key of your keyboard (if it has one) and after the CD/DVD is in the drive select the reload button. Apple keyboards normally have an eject key: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Keyboard PC keyboards don't. If you need to eject and boot from a Mac without the use of the installed OS first, go to Open Firmware (Opt+Alt+O+F) and enter "eject cd:". Then either boot like you did, by issuing the command "boot cd:,\\:tbxi" – also try "boot cd:". If that does not work you need to restart the mac after the CD/DVD is in the drive and either hold "c" (which will try to boot from the CD/DVD drive) or hold the Option key (which will let you choose at the firmware boot selection screen). Sometimes if a CD/DVD does not boot, it is either the wrong version (i.e. "ppc64le" instead of "powerpc") or the CD/DVD is faulty. Did you check if the CD/DVD is readable from within Mac OS X? Good luck, Andreas aka Linux User #330250
