Hello Richard,
I tried the following in the link you posted:
To do the same in OSX, do the following. First convert the .iso file to an .img
file in OSX so that it can be written to a USB stick:
hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/path/to/target.img
~/path/to/source.iso
After I hit return, it appears the „target.img“, but after the operation is
done, the „target.img“ is disappearing.
What have I done wrong?
Thanks in advance
Carlos
> Am 18.05.2017 um 07:24 schrieb Richard Kuenz <richard.ku...@web.de>:
>
> This helped me when i needed to boot usb
>
> http://mintppc.org/content/installation-mintppc-92
>
> On 17.05.2017 20:29, Carlos wrote:
>> 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
>>
