If anyone has read specs, then has seen that that computer has a CD reader, (not DVD).
__________ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at lists.debian.org archives. El 20/10/15 a les 15:53, Lennart Sorensen ha escrit: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 01:54:09AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Hi Art, >> >> I doubt you can buy a Lenny DVD these days. Your best bet is to find a >> friend with a working DVD burner. >> >> After you've got a bootable DVD, take a look at the documentation that >> Narcis Garcia linked to in his reply. Installing on a PowerPC machine is >> not different in any important way from installing on an x86 or amd64 >> machine, but it helps to read the docs in any case... > > Well the bootloader is different in general, but yeah other than that it is > pretty similar. > >> Hope that helps! >> Rick >> >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Art Grandi <wanwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Rick! >>> >>> Thanks for your Quick answer. Yes it is a G3 and it is the one model Apple >>> made impossible to boot with anyother mac OS version than the exact version >>> that came originnally with it. >>> >>> I thought lenny would be also a Little lighter than modwern versions, as >>> it is an o´lder computer with just 526 MB RAM. >>> >>> I have lost much time the last 2 months trying to burn DVDs from different >>> versions of Linux -Debian, Mint, Ubuntu and Fedora with an external USB >>> DVD. In the past I Always burned from my Windows machine which has an >>> internal burner, but now I want to become independent of windows. >>> >>> The Jessie version a I tried 8,01 started to install but when i made some >>> mistake informing hostname it failed and tjhe mac Went dead. >>> >>> So now I want to try lenny on the dead mac, via yaboot which i iam trying >>> to learn. I have downloaded Lenny jigdo from my Linux machine and got >>> positive information from the jigdo that the files were good. I can click >>> on the DVD´s Icon and see the folders and files in them. >>> >>> Tried to burn them from many combinations of Linux and burners, both >>> graphic and command line without success. I Think it must have been an >>> unlucky combination of problems as Xfburn refuses in all my Linux version >>> to recognize media in my external DVD, although ´computer can >>> browse through the DVDs. Brasero could in some versions burn Lennyu to the >>> DVDs, but the result was a "bin" file EVEN when i choosed "Iso9660" as the >>> file type in the Brasero option. > > The way I always burn DVD images in linux is: > > growisofs -Z /dev/dvdrw=debianimage.iso -dvd-compat > > I have seen that a lot of external USB dvd writers can read USB powered > but can only reliably write if using an external power supply. Also some > are DVD-R or DVD+R only, and not both for writing. > > growisofs is part of the dvd+rw-tools in some Debian releases, and a > seperate package in others (although dvd+rw-tools will depend on growisofs > if it is seperate). >
