Re: PPC64 install && Firefox

2024-04-08 Thread Ken Cunningham
> On Apr 8, 2024, at 1:02 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > On Mon, 2024-04-08 at 19:38 +1200, Mike Hosken wrote: >> As for Firefox thanks for the info, hopefully it will get fixed as it would >> make >> ppc64 still very useable in this modern era. > > Well, someone interested

Re: PPC64 install && Firefox

2024-04-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mike Hosken wrote: > When I burned it to a cd it didn’t boot. When I tried a dvd it did boot. That's strange. Do you still have that CD with the ISO on it ? If so, what do you get from a run of xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -toc -report_system_area plain -check_media -- assumed that /dev/sr0

Re: PPC64 install && Firefox

2024-04-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, 2024-04-08 at 19:38 +1200, Mike Hosken wrote: > I used debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST.iso with the date 2023-05-16. > I downloaded this from cdimage.debian.org. When I burned it to a > cd it didn’t boot. When I tried a dvd it did boot. I’m assuming > that it’s the latest image. There were 15

Re: PPC64 install && Firefox

2024-04-08 Thread Mike Hosken
Hi Adrian, I used debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST.iso with the date 2023-05-16. I downloaded this from cdimage.debian.org. When I burned it to a cd it didn’t boot. When I tried a dvd it did boot. I’m assuming that it’s the latest image. I ended up doing 6 installations overall, for testing

Re: PPC64 install && Firefox

2024-04-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello, On Mon, 2024-04-08 at 17:19 +1200, Mike Hosken wrote: > I just wanted to give some feedback on the install of ppc64 on a Mac G5. > > I had a few issues when installing the latest version. Which image did you use? The latest snapshot image is known to not boot on PowerMac G5, so I'm