Hi Richard, I've been running sid for some time now - on my iMac G5 (radeon), and it works fine.
Just had an issue at one time, but, as I also got a Debian stable on the same machine, after a couple of weeks in limbo, I just chroot and did an update/upgrade and it went ok again. Suppose the issue was solved meanwhile. I had wheezy (mintppc) on my PowerBooktill now, and as I needed to start filling in a "simple" installation manual (we would like to write a kind of starter's manual http://wiki.powerprogress.org/DebianPowerPcStartersManual), so I installed sid on it... About the reasons why to run sid... Simple. - We're ( PowerProgressCommunity http://www.powerprogress.org ) trying to help the Debian powerpc community by testing Debian unstable. - We would like to use it for our future PowerPC notebook http://www.powerpc-notebook.org - we're still working on it (hardware design with Acube http://acube-systems.biz/ ) - and we're looking for people to help us (volunteers / donations). - We would like to help people install Debian powerpc on PowerPC Macs because they're still very able machines - and we would like to show Debian community we need Debian PowerPC to become a supported release again. - We would like to learn more about the inners of Debian. And I can give you more reasons.... (some would sound crazy - so I'll stop here). Best Regards, Fadi. En date de : Ven 19.5.17, Richard Kuenz <richard.ku...@web.de> a écrit : Objet: Re: Worked with a Firewire drive, but now I'm hanging again À: "Fadi Osman" <fospot-...@yahoo.com>, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, "Carlos" <powerpc1...@gmail.com> Date: Vendredi 19 mai 2017, 8h17 Fadi, i tried Jessie on a Powerbook G4 15' (radeon) 1,67 and i could achieve easy installation and also 3D accelleration with the help of this section here http://ppcluddite.blogspot.it/2012/03/installing-debian-linux-on-ppc-part-iv.html Did not update to Sid , though. Why, if ever, should one do that, at this point? But i rememeber, on my Imac G5, Sid would work, but some things started to become, strange and i reverted then. Could not remember though if it was the Imac g5 with Nvidia or the Radeon G5 one. Cheers, Richard On 19.05.2017 07:59, Fadi Osman wrote: > Hello Carlos, > > about booting on USB stick , I have tried installing sid (unstable) on PowerBook G4 Aluminum 15' (radeon) and it works (somehow...). > (maybe it is the way you've written the ISO to USB drive...) > > Here are the notes about the installation: > http://wiki.powerprogress.org/DebianPowerPcStartersManual#Installation_of_Debian_powerpc > > Unfortunately - I think I'm having the BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH issue (with radeon). > > Funny thing though, everything works just after the installation - but booting the next day gets me into the black screen of death. > > I'm doing the installation again this week-end, and I'll keep the logs for a successful xserver start to compare them with the logs for unsuccessful start. > > Good luck, > Fadi. > > -------------------------------------------- > En date de : Jeu 18.5.17, Carlos <powerpc1...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > Objet: Re: Worked with a Firewire drive, but now I'm hanging again > À: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Date: Jeudi 18 mai 2017, 16h52 > > Hello guys, > > now I have copied the ISO to a Firewire > drive. > > First I got an error > during installation. > Then I typed > „install32 video=ofonly“ > > This worked :-) > But now I’m > hanging at „Detect and mount CD-ROM“ in the main menu of > the installer. > The installer said, no CD-ROM > drive found. Now he forces me to define the directory of the > driver. But I don’t know this. > > A also can’t open the shell. Alt+F2 don’t > work. > > Any advise, > please >
