Hello to all, first of, great community. This is my first post but I have read a lot of threads on this mailing list. And I’m a totally noob on Linux.
I would like to install Debian from a USB-Stick, but sadly it fails. First off, my system requirements: Apple PowerBook G4 1.5GHz Model Identifier: PowerBook6,8 (February 2005) Model Number: A1104 Boot-ROM Version: 4.9.0f0 OS: MacOS X v10.4.11 These steps I have done so far: 1. Downloaded Debian 8.8.0 non-free Firmware edition from here: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/8.8.0+nonfree/powerpc/iso-cd/ 2. I copied the ISO to USB-Stick with this command: sudo dd if=/Users/test/Downloads/firmware-8.8.0-powerpc-netinst.iso of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=1m After I performed this command, I got: 308+1 records in 308+1 records out 323665920 bytes transferred in 27.002575 secs (11986484 bytes/sec) And the stick appears in the Finder called „Debian/PowerPC_jessie (with lot of folders, e. g. install/yaboot) The USB-Stick is shown in the disk utility as follows: File system: MacOS standard (disk1s2) Partition type: Apple_HFS (Apple partition scheme) 3. Booting the PowerBook in OpenFirmware 4. typed dev / ls and devalias As described there: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2012/08/msg00042.html But I don’t find the USB-Stick. I also tried this command: „boot ud:,\\:tbxi“ as described there: http://ben-collins.blogspot.de/2010/08/booting-your-ibook-g4-from-usb-stick.html But only it appears a no stopping sign. I also have tried a different Stick. The first one with 2GB, the second with 8GB. Could maybe someone give me a advice, please? Thanks in advance Carlos
