Hi,
I have a lot of experience of booting from USB on PPC based Macs. It is
possible. You have to dd the image into the stick:
Flashing USB sticks is quite easy under OSX or Linux with the following
command:
dd if=/path/to/debian.iso of=/dev/sdx
(x being a number, sdx is the device name of the stick).
Do not use a partition on the stick, so only the whole device.
Success
Jeroen
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz schreef op 2020-10-20 15:14:
Hi Thomas!
On 10/20/20 3:07 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Rufus' "dd" mode is known to be suitable.
The displayed size of /dev/sdb1 matches what i would expect from a
correct
plain copy.
So i think this part succeeded.
That might be the case. But I cannot provide support for that at the
moment.
If someone wants to deviate from the tested standard way, they're on
their own.
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2019-07-03/debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso
was made by genisoimage with the old layout:
- CHRP partition in MBR (size 363810 KiB) starting at LBA 0,
- a single Apple partition (size 363802 KiB) with HFS (not HFS+),
- APM block size is 512 (i.e. the HFS might be mountable by Linux).
Can the installed system mount the 10.0.0 ISO from USB stick partition
1 ?
I know that the ISO images work fine when burnt to CD. I also think
there were reports
from users who copied the images onto USB drives with "dd", but I'm not
sure.
I've personally not really tested USB booting and installation on
PowerMacs.
Adrian
