> This image will not work on your Macintosh G5, unfortunately. ppc64el is a new ppc64 port by IBM which is incompatible with old hardware.
Ooh... I guess was confused because https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/#ppc64el says "Here you can find information about the 64-bit PowerPC Little Endian architecture" and links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ppc64 which made it look like PowerPC 970* was little endian too. Thanks for the help, now I have the installer going. Regards /M On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 12:02 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Matti! > > On 06/17/2017 11:54 PM, Matti Palmström wrote: > > I have an iMac G5 iSight with a 64-bit PowerPC 970fx that I try to > install Stretch to. I have > > downloaded debian-stretch-DI-rc5-ppc64el-netinst.iso and burned it to a > cd and dd'ed it to a usb stick. > > This image will not work on your Macintosh G5, unfortunately. ppc64el is a > new > ppc64 port by IBM which is incompatible with old hardware. > > Luckily, there is still a way to install Debian on your machine. You can > download > a CD image for Debian sid by following the link below: > > > http://jenkins.kfreebsd.eu/jenkins/view/cd/job/debian-cd_ > sid_powerpc/ws/*zip*/workspace.zip > > Unzipping this file should give you an ISO image which you can burn to a > CD and use > to install your G5 with Debian for powerpc. This will give you a 64-bit > kernel (ppc64) > and a 32-bit userland (powerpc). > > We will be providing full 64-bit ppc64 installation media in the future > which will > have both a 64-bit kernel and a 64-bit userland but work on that hasn't > finished > yet, unfortunately. > > Cheers, > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >
