> On Apr 28, 2016, at 5:15 AM, Andrew Tarr wrote:
> So I have now successfully installed Debian Jessie to my Mac Mini.
…
> The resolution is low, so everything's huge, but I'm sure I can make that
> better somehow...
Take a look at the “fbset” package. With it you can do command line stuff
OK, Mathieu asked me off-list about whether my USB key was HFS formatted, and I
finally clicked!
I had been doing dd ... of=/dev/sda1 whereas I should have been doing it to
/dev/sda
This of course makes all the difference, OpenFirmware was seeing a DOS-style
partition scheme and getting confu
Thanks to those who responded.
boot usb1/disk:,\install\yaboot
gets me a
Warning: Sector Size Mismatch! can't OPEN boot usb1/disk:,\install\yaboot
message, which is what has happened before.
I did get further with the installer from the network boot! It got up to 'detecting h
If your G4 mini is having trouble with the internal hard-drive, you might try
installing to an external FireWire hard drive. Booting from FireWire is a
supported feature of the NewWorld Mac OpenFirmware. While booting from USB is
possible with some models, it’s not as well supported.
My G4 mi
On 04/26/2016 05:53 AM, a...@vorsicht-bissig.de wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have been trying to resurrect my MacMini.
>
Is your internal CD/DVD broken?
People had success installing from an external firewire CD/DVD drive
and/or from a memory stick containing raw debian installer iso as is
desc
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:53 AM, wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have been trying to resurrect my MacMini.
This is not clear to me, but my Mac Mini G4 does boot nicely from a
properly prepared USB key:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2016/04/msg00081.html
Pay attention that on your HFS
Hi folks,
I have been trying to resurrect my MacMini.
I haven't used it for some years, and I don't recall what the situation was when it was last working, nor at what stage it stopped working. I did install a linux distrubtion on it at one point.
The current state though is:
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