Re: How to install on Power Mac G5 from USB stick

2011-06-24 Thread jean-michel deleu
Here is the actual link: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/powerpc/release-notes/ cheers, jmd On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:48 PM, jean-michel deleu wrote: > If you click on "Release Notes" on that page you should get access to links > pointing to > Debian (Squeeze) ppc install. > > cheers, >

Re: How to install on Power Mac G5 from USB stick

2011-06-24 Thread nello martuscielli
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > Read the installation instructions for MintPPC. It has a section about > booting a Debian installer from USB... > Is this the right page? http://www.mintppc.org/content/installation-instructions 'cause i got: Access denied You are not

Re: How to install on Power Mac G5 from USB stick

2011-06-24 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Read the installation instructions for MintPPC. It has a section about booting a Debian installer from USB... On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 23:14 +0300, Risto Suominen wrote: > AFAIK, ISO boot works only on CD. USB stick looks like a hard disk to > the OS. So it should, in case of Linux, contain an 800k H

Re: How to install on Power Mac G5 from USB stick

2011-06-24 Thread Chris Reich
John, New World Macs are not designed to boot from USB at all, even if some folks have found ways to do it. CDs are cheap. Burn an install CD and boot from it by holding down the 'c' key on the keyboard while powering-up the Mac. This works with Apple-brand keyboards; not all third-party keyboar

Re: How to install on Power Mac G5 from USB stick

2011-06-24 Thread Risto Suominen
AFAIK, ISO boot works only on CD. USB stick looks like a hard disk to the OS. So it should, in case of Linux, contain an 800k HFS boot partition with yaboot. Risto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

How to install on Power Mac G5 from USB stick

2011-06-24 Thread John Ames
I've got a Power Mac I'd like to run Debian on, but while the install files are easy enough to find, I've been having a devil of a time figuring out how I'm supposed to boot the thing from USB. There are several articles on booting New World Macs from USB that Google turns up, but they seem very cu