Hi Riccardo,
On 10/13/2017 02:05 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Hi,
after all this discussion about yaboot vs. grub and people having
reported issues on older macs, I can offer my take. I have a G3 PowerPC
iBook? I really do not want to reinstall everything, it takes time to
setup this machine.
Hi,
after all this discussion about yaboot vs. grub and people having
reported issues on older macs, I can offer my take. I have a G3 PowerPC
iBook? I really do not want to reinstall everything, it takes time to
setup this machine.
I am using yaboot and everything works fine, very nice machi
Hi Adrian,
On 2017-10-11, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Today I downloaded the latest powerpc/sid netinst iso[0] in order to
>> revive my iBookG4 (and hopefully help bring PowerPC back to
>> Debian/testing). Unfortunately the ISO image (burned to CD) would not
>> boot, causing various error
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 at 01:31:08 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> powerpc64 (pizzetti) gets the same test failures as s390x (zelenka),
> suggesting that they are something that happens on big-endian 64-bit.
> hppa doesn't seem to have a porterbox and sparc64's (notker) was
> unresponsive, so I can't c
Source: mozjs52
Version: 52.3.1-4
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Build-time test suite failures for mozjs52 have been made non-fatal on
ppc64el because the tests time out. This is clearly a bug, but it isn't
clear what the severity of that bug is: it could be anythi
Hello Rick,
yes ,
thank you ,
i have also powerbook g4 1,67 (limited to 1 GB due to some strange Bug)
and Powermac G5 (currently with 6 GB Ram, DualProcessor - Quadcore)
On the Powermac G5 Wheezy runs exceptionally well, quick , stable , only
the fans are really loud - and i have not found
A helpful website for finding out specs for old Macs is http://www.everymac.com
— They have, among other things, specs for maximum possible RAM upgrades for
every model of Mac that Apple ever sold — and suggestions for where to buy the
upgrades you need.
Rick
Hi Richard.
You definitely need to install more RAM if you plan to use the machine for web
browsing and other GUI-based tasks. 2GB would be just about minimum for a
modern OS like Wheezy or Jessie. Even with that, I’d make sure to specify a
lightweight desktop, like Mate or Xfce.
Given that
But this "Yaboot Magic" with additional partition ext2 /boot (bootable
Flat) was also needed when installing
Squeeze or Wheezy , at least so it seemed here.
Automatic Partitioning would install,
but yaboot would complain I/O Error at booting sequence.
Am 12.10.17 um 10:38 schrieb Richard Kuen
Ah sorry, i actually installed Wheezy,
and it still was too slow for my needs -
i might upgrade RAM to 2 GB and see if this helps.
Would like to use Squeeze - but Debian got rid "cleared" of Iceape and
therefore at the moment Wheezy / Jessie seems better for browsing
especially if one likes to
> On Oct 12, 2017, at 1:06 AM, Richard Kuenz wrote:
>
> Thank you ver much Rick,
>
> this helped me alot installing SID onto Powermac G4.
You’re welcome. Glad I could help!
Rick
Thank you ver much Rick,
this helped me alot installing SID onto Powermac G4.
Instead of Automatic Partitioning i had to choose Manual Partitioning,
and where i was used to manually Partition the likes of
1 MB NewWorldBoot
eg 80 GB / root Ext3/4 DebianRootDrive
4,5 GB Swap
i had to insert on
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