On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 04:17:35PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 4:15 PM Sam Imberman <simber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm actually having more or less the same problem with my Powerbook G4
> > Aluminum.
> > I am using the image from
> > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/non-free/ ,
> > which I burnt on a USB stick with "dd
> > if=./debian-11.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso of=/dev/sdg bs=1M"
> > When I boot the machine while holding "option", the USB stick is not found.
>
> I don't know about the G4's, but I know about the G5's. You cannot
> boot a G5 from USB. You have to burn a CD and boot from the CD.
That's going to be a problem, on both my Pismo and my 17" PB G4 (latest
version), the CD drive is dead.
What's the alternative? I have a firewire 1.8" disk (~5GB capacity)
somewhere, I just need some time to locate it.
Cheers,
Gabriel
>
> Jeff
>
