Hi Federico, if it didn't work for you, I would rather try with Debian.
CU Claudia Am Dienstag, 23. Januar 2024, 15:05:06 CET schrieb Federico Vaga: > Hi Claudia and all, > > this is a very interesting coincidence. I've started trying a couple of > days > a go to install Debian 12 on the same iMac. > > In my case, I'm booting the netinst image from USB but the kernel > crashes > somewhere. The screen is not refreshed after a few kernel messages, so I > was > not able to debug any further. > > On the web I've found this project https://fienixppc.blogspot.com/ and I > their > suggestion about a video driver misconfiguration and a possible > solution. > > See https://fienixppc.blogspot.com/p/troubleshooting-of.html > > None of the options, helped me. But I did not try to investigate more > since > then. Perhaps you will have better luck :) > > On 2024-01-23 14:54, Claudia Neumann wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have an iMac G5, PowerMac 12,1 PPC970FX, Platform: PowerMac 12,1 > > MacRISC4 Power Macinstosh, Memory 1GB+384MB. > > I had installed Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS and it was running fine. Now I need > > newer libc and so on. So I wanted to install Debian 12 or even Debian > > 13 on this iMac. > > Is that possible? I tried > > > > debian-12.4.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso > > but the iMac does not start from the DVD. > > What can I do? > > CU > > Claudia > > -- > Federico Vaga
