Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-10 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Your graphic card can probably be managed by: - Nvidia closed-source driver (including firmware): https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers - Nouveau open-source driver (automatically loaded by default for your hardware) with a firmware you have to install (probably the

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (there is at least one answer which was not Cc'ed to you as follow-up under https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/05/msg00358.html ) Pat Pathmanathan wrote: > I finally managed to install the following image on my iMac G5 : > [...] debian-10.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso [...] > 'Starting

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-09 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, May 9, 2021, 1:18 PM Pat Pathmanathan wrote: > I finally managed to install the following image on my iMac G5 : > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/ > > https://saimei.ftp.acc.umu.se/cdimage/ports/current/debian-10.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso > > The installation went fine.

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-09 Thread Felix Miata
Pat Pathmanathan composed on 2021-05-09 19:02 (UTC+0100): > I finally managed to install the following image on my iMac G5 : > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/ > https://saimei.ftp.acc.umu.se/cdimage/ports/current/debian-10.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso > The installation went fine.

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE
On Sonntag, 2. Mai 2021 13:29:47 -04 didier gaumet wrote: > Le 02/05/2021 à 16:43, Greg Wooledge a écrit : > > On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > >> From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor > >> is a>> > >> powerpc64 Big Indian, not a

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread didier gaumet
Le 02/05/2021 à 19:29, didier gaumet a écrit : (I have  almost wrote "inglish") sorry : "written" There: absent-minded ;-)

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread didier gaumet
Le 02/05/2021 à 16:43, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor is a powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian [...] That's "Endian", not "Indian".

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sun, May 2, 2021, 11:51 AM Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Sun May 2 08:17:13 2021 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > > > >> From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor > >> is a powerpc64 Big Indian, not a

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Sun May 2 08:17:13 2021 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > >> From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor >> is a powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian [...] > > That's "Endian", not "Indian". 8080

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Pat Pathmanathan wrote: > I am trying to install Debian 10.9 on the old iMac G5. I burned the > 'debian-10.9.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso’ [..] > I was > able to install Ubuntu Mate 16.04 for powerpc without any problem. Possibly you want Debian for "ppc64" or "powerpc". At least the boot

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor is a > powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian [...] That's "Endian", not "Indian". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor is a powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian and nowadays the rare Linux ditros that still propose a powerpc64 portage do it for Litte Indian (ppc64el) as Debian do. So Debian is not compatible with your

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 5/2/21 3:21 PM, Pat Pathmanathan wrote: > I am trying to install Debian 10.9 on the old iMac G5. I burned the > 'debian-10.9.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso’ image to CD on a newer iMac (2017). > When I boot the iMac G5 holding the ‘Option’ key down with the CD > inserted, the G5 doesn’t recognise the CD

Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Pat Pathmanathan
I am trying to install Debian 10.9 on the old iMac G5. I burned the 'debian-10.9.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso’ image to CD on a newer iMac (2017). When I boot the iMac G5 holding the ‘Option’ key down with the CD inserted, the G5 doesn’t recognise the CD as a bootable CD. I then did the same with the