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

> On Apr 28, 2016, at 5:15 AM, Andrew Tarr wrote: > So I have now successfully installed Debian Jessie to my Mac Mini. … > The resolution is low, so everything's huge, but I'm sure I can make that > better somehow... Take a look at the “fbset” package. With it you can

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

OK, Mathieu asked me off-list about whether my USB key was HFS formatted, and I finally clicked! I had been doing dd ... of=/dev/sda1 whereas I should have been doing it to /dev/sda This of course makes all the difference, OpenFirmware was seeing a DOS-style partition scheme and getting

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

Thanks to those who responded.    boot usb1/disk:,\install\yaboot   gets me a   Warning: Sector Size Mismatch! can't OPEN boot usb1/disk:,\install\yaboot   message, which is what has happened before.     I did get further with the installer from the network boot! It got up to 'detecting

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

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

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

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

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: