Hi Claudia, On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 14:54 +0100, Claudia Neumann wrote: > I have an iMac G5, PowerMac 12,1 PPC970FX, Platform: PowerMac 12,1 MacRISC4 > Power Macinstosh, Memory 1GB+384MB. > > I had installed Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS and it was running fine. Now I need newer > libc and so on. So I wanted to install Debian 12 or even Debian 13 on this > iMac.
This is a computer running in big-endian mode, so you need to install a big-endian PowerPC distribution. > Is that possible? I tried > debian-12.4.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso > but the iMac does not start from the DVD. The ppc64el Debian port targets little-endian PowerPC, so it's not compatible with your Mac. > What can I do? Please use this installation image: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-12-14/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
