Re: Installation of Debian on an iMac PowerPC

2019-02-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Adrian, On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 10:53 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 2/17/19 10:45 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > However having said that I have had great results from installing Debian > > testing/buster into a PowerMac G5 with no major issues. Sure the boot > > loader is a tad

Re: Installation of Debian on an iMac PowerPC

2019-02-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/17/19 10:45 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > However having said that I have had great results from installing Debian > testing/buster into a PowerMac G5 with no major issues. Sure the boot > loader is a tad crusty but the machine works well enough. Frank Scheiner has already written patches to

Re: Installation of Debian on an iMac PowerPC

2019-02-17 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 2/17/19 9:11 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 2/17/19 2:46 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >> Does that mean that yaboot will not be available as a bootloader in >> some future powerpc Debian? And not being maintained anymore from then >> on? > > Yaboot is already unmaintained, the

Re: Installation of Debian on an iMac PowerPC

2019-02-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/17/19 2:46 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Does that mean that yaboot will not be available as a bootloader in > some future powerpc Debian? And not being maintained anymore from then > on? Yaboot is already unmaintained, the upstream git repository hasn't seen a commit since 2011. There are

Re: Installation of Debian on an iMac PowerPC

2019-02-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 01:46:52PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: Hi David, Try installing with the “oldstable”/“Jessie” CD. http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/8.11.0/powerpc/iso-cd/ Grub for Powerpc is still a work in progress. It may not work on your old G3 machine. Jessie