If you are looking for debian install walk through for PPC then checkout these
two places.
http://ppcluddite.blogspot.com/
And
http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.ca/2013/07/quick-and-dirty-light-and-fast.html
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> On Dec 29, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Joel Roth wrote:
>> Graham Todd wrote:
>>> I have recently obtained a Mac iBook G4 running OSX Tiger, and after
>>> very good experiences
>>> using Debian on a Windows laptop, I tried to get my head round the
>>> instructions without success, I wonder if some kind soul could give me
>>> easy instructions on how to install it on a Mac iBook G4.
>>
>> I found this:
>>
>> https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac
>
> Wow. That's old and not very informative.
>
> The link on that page to the installation guide does get you more
> up-to-date information, however:
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/
>
> Shoot. That has a lot of old information in it, too. And I think all
> the people who could update it are busy or have left, or both (like
> me).
>
> Still, take the hour or two to scan through that and note the stuff
> that seems to be PPC specific. You won't understand the openfirmware
> notes, I suppose, but read them anyway.
>
>> cheers,
>>
>>> I dont have any Tiger installation disks
>
> Well, that's no fun.
>
> Does Tiger boot? Do you trust it not to have malware that would
> install backdoors on Linux installation CDs?
>
> If you use Mac OS to download and burn he install CDs, you need to be
> careful how you do it. The easy way to save an install imge to a CD
> or DVD ends up just saving an install image to a CD or DVD. I think
> you have similar problems on MSWindows systems.
>
> I think my memory tells me that you can right-click the image file and
> get a menu that inlcudes the option to burn the image to disk. Or
> select the image file and look in the menu bar menus for an entry that
> says it will burn the image to disk. I think there's one other way,
> but it's not coming to me, and, frankly, I'm demotivated to try
> installing Jessie on my one remaining functional PPC Mac to remind
> myself how.
>
> I think you can burn the install CD on a Linux system without too much
> fuss. CDs are cheap enough, give it a try.
>
>>> and I'm not sure if any
>>> specific versions of Debian are required.
>
> No. Any version that includes PPC should fly. I've done it with wheezy
> and squeeze.
>
>>> I intent to partition the
>>> hard drive for Debian only.
>
> That eases things up a bit.
>
>>> Can this be done
>
> Of course.
>
>>> and can easily understood instructions be referred to
>>> to help me?
>
> Don't think too hard about it, for starters.
>
> Now that you've read the stuff on the debian site tell yourself it's
> mostly old information. If you can get the network install image
> burned on a CD properly, boot it with the magic keys.
>
> (What were those? oh, yeah, according to my ancient blog post about
> doing this with Fedora on a clamshell, it's just holding the "C" key
> down while the machine boots with the install CD in the CD drive. If
> you are interested, that post is here:
>
> http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2009/05/fedora-on-old-clamshell-ibook.html
>
> It may explain some things, may confuse you with unnecesary information.)
>
> Once the installer is booted, just answer the questions. Since you
> don't want to dual-boot, you really shouldn't have to pay too much
> attention to things. Don't worry that it seems to need one or two more
> partitions than it should, you won't run short of partitions. Don't
> worry about openfirmware, the way they have it set up to relay through
> the partitions should make booting automatic.
>
> Oh, there is a PowerPC list for debian. I'll cross-post this to it, to
> save you some trouble finding it.
>
> And have fun.
>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Graham Todd
>> -
>> Joel Roth
>
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> Joel Rees
>
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>
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