Hi Christian, I also have an old Mac Mini G4. I could *never* get debian to install using CDs. I eventually burned the first DVD and managed to install debian Lenny. The whole thread is at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2010/07/msg00097.html I could also never get the installer to work from the USB key (I am not a Mac user, I was just trying to get it done). HTH On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Christian Lynbech <christ...@defun.dk> wrote: > I have an old Mac Mini G4 that I would like to install debian on, but I > am having some problems getting it to work. > > The internal CD drive stopped working long ago, I have an external LaCie > FW drive but I canot get the installation to work from that. > > The symptom I see is that if I boot with Option down, I do get a choice > of boot devices which includes the Debian CD in the LaCie, but if I > select it and continue, the screen will go black for a couple of seconds > and then the bootdevice selection screen re-appears, as if something bad > happened during the Debian bootstrap. I have tried both with Debian 4, > 5, 6 and snapshots of 7 and all behaves the same way, so it does not > seems to be an installer issue. > > I have managed to install OSX Tiger from the drive so it is not that it > doesn't work. I have also earlier had an Ubuntu install running, so > there should be hope. Obviously, there can be some hardware issues > (there are some problems, if I turn wlan on, OSX will freeze in a few > minutes). > > Anybody knows what is going on or has any ideas how I can debug the > problem? > > I am going to look into trying to boot from a USB stick, and/or trying to > netboot but would much prefer to get the CD way to work. > > > ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- > Christian Lynbech | christian #\@ defun #\. dk > ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- > Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. > - peto...@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/86y5o2vtfa....@meulenburg.defun.dk > -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ca+7wusyf0py7c9v-fxso3jm2slxajtmfv0hqg4m2lc+lilj...@mail.gmail.com
