Hi Ken! On 10/31/21 23:39, Ken Cunningham wrote: > I thought I would mention a successful debian install on a PowerPC iMac 6,1: > > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > cpu : 7455, altivec supported > clock : 999.999997MHz > revision : 3.3 (pvr 8001 0303) > bogomips : 66.56 > > timebase : 33280357 > platform : PowerMac > model : PowerMac6,1 > machine : PowerMac6,1 > motherboard : PowerMac6,1 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh > detected as : 287 (Flat panel iMac) > pmac flags : 00000010 > L2 cache : 256K unified > pmac-generation : NewWorld > Memory : 768 MB
Thanks for the feedback. Always nice to hear when users report back a successful installation. > I used the cd from > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-04-17/ > <https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-04-17/> > > as the more recent CD I tried did not work, as per this message I found later: > > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2021/09/msg00008.html > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2021/09/msg00008.html>> I think the latest image should work though. A complete fix for this issue will come in the next weeks. There is only part missing which is a proper release of the partman-hfs package. > following that the installation went smoothly through, looking much like the > screen capture images here in this walkthough: > > <https://www.danielmartingonzalez.com/en/installing-debian-10-from-scratch/ > <https://www.danielmartingonzalez.com/en/installing-debian-10-from-scratch/>> > > I chose the “entire disc” installation method to keep things simpler, and I > chose the LXDE desktop, as on a previous attempt using the default choice of > the Xfce desktop there was an error. > > It is quite neat to see this system able to run current versions of rust, > ghc, llivm/clang-13, gcc-11.2, etc. Yep, that's why we're doing this. Also, it's fun and you learn a lot doing it ;-). > thanks to all for all your efforts. > > I have four more Apple PPC machines to work on next over the coming few > weeks. The next efforts will be a couple of Dual-G5s I have nearby. Great. Looking forward to more feedback. And don't forget to always enable the participation in the popularity contest during installation. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
