Re: Fail to install stretch to iMac G5

2017-07-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 05:00:23PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > If there’s anything I, as a tester (I don’t have developer skills) > can do to help with this effort, please let me know. I have access to > a couple of G5 PowerMac machines and can get access to an iMac G5 if > it will help. Just be

Re: Fail to install stretch to iMac G5

2017-07-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Adrian! If there’s anything I, as a tester (I don’t have developer skills) can do to help with this effort, please let me know. I have access to a couple of G5 PowerMac machines and can get access to an iMac G5 if it will help. Rick On Jun 17, 2017, at 3:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz

Re: Fail to install stretch to iMac G5

2017-06-17 Thread Matti Palmström
> This image will not work on your Macintosh G5, unfortunately. ppc64el is a new ppc64 port by IBM which is incompatible with old hardware. Ooh... I guess was confused because https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/#ppc64el says "Here you can find information about the 64-bit PowerPC Little Endian a

Re: Fail to install stretch to iMac G5

2017-06-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Matti! On 06/17/2017 11:54 PM, Matti Palmström wrote: > I have an iMac G5 iSight with a 64-bit PowerPC 970fx that I try to install > Stretch to. I have > downloaded debian-stretch-DI-rc5-ppc64el-netinst.iso and burned it to a cd > and dd'ed it to a usb stick. This image will not work on your

Fail to install stretch to iMac G5

2017-06-17 Thread Matti Palmström
I have an iMac G5 iSight with a 64-bit PowerPC 970fx that I try to install Stretch to. I have downloaded debian-stretch-DI-rc5-ppc64el-netinst.iso and burned it to a cd and dd'ed it to a usb stick. Neither is detected by the mac boot thingie when boot with with option key pressed. I've tried boot