Re: G4 MacMini network boot of install media failing at system clock set

2016-04-26 Thread Rick Thomas
If your G4 mini is having trouble with the internal hard-drive, you might try installing to an external FireWire hard drive. Booting from FireWire is a supported feature of the NewWorld Mac OpenFirmware. While booting from USB is possible with some models, it’s not as well supported. My G4

Re: hardware donation

2016-04-26 Thread Min Xu
Sure. The machine is a 15 inch powerbook G4 with high-res display and 1GB of memory (if I remembered correctly). I swapped the original HDD out with a SSD in (32GB). But the SSD is not very fast in writes as I later found out. I also took the internal CDROM out to reduce the weight but the CDROM

Re: hardware donation

2016-04-26 Thread LACROIX Jean Marc
Le 24/04/2016 22:19, Min Xu a écrit : Hi, I have a powerbook G4 that I don't use anymore. I could donate it to debian ppc project. Who should I contact? Thanks, Min My suggestion is to contact William Bonnet (wbon...@theitmakers.com) or me. Please can you give us more information about your

Re: G4 MacMini network boot of install media failing at system clock set

2016-04-26 Thread Milan Kupcevic
On 04/26/2016 05:53 AM, a...@vorsicht-bissig.de wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have been trying to resurrect my MacMini. > Is your internal CD/DVD broken? People had success installing from an external firewire CD/DVD drive and/or from a memory stick containing raw debian installer iso as is

Re: G4 MacMini network boot of install media failing at system clock set

2016-04-26 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi, On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:53 AM, wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have been trying to resurrect my MacMini. This is not clear to me, but my Mac Mini G4 does boot nicely from a properly prepared USB key: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2016/04/msg00081.html Pay

G4 MacMini network boot of install media failing at system clock set

2016-04-26 Thread arc
Hi folks,    I have been trying to resurrect my MacMini.    I haven't used it for some years, and I don't recall what the situation was when it was last working, nor at what stage it stopped working.   I did install a linux distrubtion on it at one point.    The current state though is: