Hello everyone Thanks for the replies. Debian wheezy powerpc installed without any problems at all. I can't really control the writer's speed. I used a CDRW which listed only one speed (10x) but everything worked out alright in the end.
Unfortunately, I got a bit greedy and selected the LXDE desktop which boots properly all the way to the graphic environment and then into a black screen. I tried to cycle through different graphic modes but I may be doing something wrong here, is it still Ctrl-Command- (plus or minus) to cycle through valid modes? If i double click "enter" I can see the monitor flicking. Worst case scenario would be to re-install, which I would like to avoid if possible. All the best AA On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:14 PM, gw-isJ-aB-superstar < gw-supers...@mp3groupie.de> wrote: > Try installing Debian (stable aka Wheezy), and in the installer it will let > you chose the server "tasks" (meta packages) you want, be sure to chose web > server, print server, etc. for your goals... > > The old macs' CD drives can only read disks that were burned at very slow > speeds, so, I know you said before the cd had integrity, but it it may go > beyond that, so when you burn your Debian cd or net-installer cd, make > sure it > was created at 1-4x > > gw > Debian user > > -- > On Monday 27 October 2014 12:36:03 Athanasios Anastasiou wrote: > > installation starts alright, scans for hardware and then starts > > downloading packages from the CDROM. Towards the end of this process it > > fails with something like "apt-cdrom-install could not be located for an > > unknown reason, installation is aborted". :( > > > > > > > > > > Here is what I have tried: > > > > 1) Checked the CD's integrity (pass) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/201410271514.32665.gw-supers...@mp3groupie.de > >
