2018-07-30 13:22 GMT+02:00 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>: > Hi Mick! > > On 07/30/2018 10:01 AM, Mick Bert wrote: >> I subscribed this list beacuse I got an old apple iBook, and I am looking for an operative system to keep it alive. > > You're at the right place then if that operating system is Linux. > >> Currently a Lubuntu is installed, I am not so much satisfied. I heard somewhere that Debian if perhaps the latest supported distribution for PowerPC architecture, but I realize just now that older processors are not supported any more by the latest stable version. > > Yes, the latest stable version of Debian dropped support for 32-Bit > PowerPC. However, you can still install the unstable version of Debian > which should run smoothly on your iBook (at least it does on my iBook G4). > > You can fetch the installation image here: > >> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/10.0/powerpc/iso-cd/ > > Let me know if you run into issues. There have been recently changes > on the server side for PowerPC for which we should build fresh > installation images. But I haven't done this for a while now. > > If the installation fails, I have a good reason to finally do that. > Actually the installation fails, already at boot time: it leads to something like an openfirmware console, where I can either reboot or shutdown:
Decrementer exception at %SRR0: 001001d8 %SRR1: 10003030 Apple PowerBook6,5 4.8.7f1 BootROM built on 09/23/04 at 16:13:38 Copyright 1994-2004 Apple Computer, Inc All Righs Reserved. Welcome to Open Firmware, the system time and date is: 22:07:38 07/31/2018 The battery capacity is: 76 percent To continue booting, type "mac-boot" and press return To shut down, type "shut-down" and press retur. ok 0 > With mac-boot it repeats all the boot, getting back to this screen. If I remove the CD, it boots regularly to the old installation of LUbuntu Any hint? -- Mick