Hi, I can't speak to the oversize ISO, but I'm sure someone smarter than me is looking into that.
Regarding graphics. IMHO, that problem is somewhat self-propagated by the PPC community in general downloading Xorg.conf workarounds or disabling drivers instead of letting developers know that PPC users exist and care by filing and following up on bug reports. For creating the bootable USB, I always do it from within Linux and don't use the hdiutil stuff. **CAUTION** dd will overwrite/destroy anything after the "of=" and it won't ask if you are sure first. Make sure you are writing to your USB stick. 1. sudo fdisk -l and note the location of your USB stick. Will be something like /dev/sdb (or /dev/sdc, etc.) 2. sudo dd if=/Downloads/Whatever/nameofyourdownloaded.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M; sync Where if=the path to your ISO download and of= the path to your USB stick. **The following is specific to PPC. Booting. I've never tried a G4 and haven't succeeded on G5 yet. I'll try a better detail later, but for now this is on a G3: (Note: early G3's that do NOT have a firewire port generally do not support USB boot either.) 1. Hold <command><option><o><f> at power on. 2. without quotes "dev / ls" and enter 3. You are looking at a tree view of the path. Note that anything indented will have a "parent" above it. In other words, to get the whole path you have to look at the lines above. 4. Verify you can "see" inside the disk using dir and the path you noted. Example: /pci@f2000000/usb@19/disk@1:2,\ 5. Once you see a directory listing, Just change it to "boot /pci@f2000000/usb@19/disk@1:2,\\yaboot" where the path matches yours. You can also type "devalias" to get a list of short names and use those instead. The PPC FAQ has more on that. Alternate method for booting oversize ISO's if you have more than one FireWire equipped Mac and one has DVD/SuperDrive. You can use that Mac as an external DVD drive. "Backwards Target Mode" 1. Put your burned DVD/DVD-RW in the MAC with DVD drive. 2. Put it in "Target Mode" by holding down "t" at power on. 3. Connect FireWire cable between that Mac and the one you are installing to. 4. Boot this second Mac holding the alt key. You should see the DVD in the other Mac as a boot option. 5. Select it and click the right arrow. *Note. The installer will see the hard drives in BOTH Mac's. Make sure you pick the correct one to install on. *Never install Linux TO a target, but only FROM. Unlike OSX, it is important the installer detects hardware on the machine it will be booting from. I've only tested this using a first gen G5 as the "external target mode drive" installing to a G3. Hope that helps. Str8 From: Lubuntu-qa [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of prairie zephyr Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 12:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Lubuntu-qa] lubuntu/daily/ size larger than stated raring-alternate-powerpc.iso 12-Apr-2013 16:39 719M Alternate install image for Mac (PowerPC) and IBM-PPC @Lubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Daily Build Actual size = 754.2 M I mention this because I have been 'testing' the ppc images when I can. My G3 iBook has a dvd drive that now only reads cds? and G4 is cd only so I was hoping 719M would fit on my largest cdrw: it can 711M. If anyone in the ppc world knows how to circumvent the ppc USB boot problem and has time to write a short primer for me, I'll post it (credited) on my ppc Lubuntu wiki so its recent googleable. I've looked and haven't found. My Intel Ubuntu GUI gets ISO -> USB easy I believe, that step is well-documented but I can't get my ppc to USB boot. Str8bs <[email protected]> ? sounds like you were booting ppc from USB? I've tried to copy ISO -> FireWire volume but the step in which you start copying at/after the 63rd sector to cut out the cd mount info? went over my head in hdiutil. I have 3 ppc with ATI cards, thinner Lubuntu support every daily and no reverse-engineering skills to hack AMD myself. If I had a ppc web browser I could download their driver but of course then I wouldn't need it. Single User OS - cli only on the G4 with the dvd drive when I tested April 8th raring-alternate-powerpc. No crash but no web browser/GUI. Every new Linux kernel seems to have a new reason why radeon doesn't work. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
