So the key points are: 1. you have to use the special ISO, and no other ISO than the latest special ISO should be used. Right now, I think you're still waiting to hear which ISO that is. 2. Do NOT believe any other website you might find or YouTube channel you might find that claims to tell you how to install debian on PPC. I have not yet seen a single one of them that has accurate information on it. 3. use GRUB. Use all the default settings during the ISO installation. Forget about triple booting into nine different operating systems. Give debian the whole disk. 4. the latest kernel is broken. Don't use it. You have to use the previous working kernel instead, and not upgrade the kernel until the issue gets sorted out. 5. you have to manually install the firmware needed to support the hardware. It's not installed by default as it is not free, so debian won't bundle it. 6. use a plugged-in ethernet connection. WIFI works, eventually, after a lot of screwing around, but don't bother with it off the start. 7. getting from the terminal display (text screen) to a whole GUI graphical interface takes a while. There will be blood. Not all video cards will work right. You will be sure you have set everything up right, but it just won't work. And then you will discover some setting that wasn't right, and it will finally work. And then you should never touch it again :> . 8. be careful with large updates / upgrades. You can quite easily get yourself into a situation where you have broken everything, and will see no good path back to a working state.
Ken > On Sep 21, 2024, at 7:54 PM, Cedar Maxwell <cedarmaxw...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hello Adrian, > > > > Yes, I tried booting into the older kernel from GRUB. In fact, attempting to > load the latest kernel from the repositories causes the system to crash back > to Open Firmware, as discussed previously. > > > > However, you mentioned that all further discussion should be based on a known > working image. Does the image I used fit this description? > > On 9/20/24 01:06, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I went ahead and tried this one: >> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/ > -- > Sincerely, > Cedar Maxwell
