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

2011-06-27 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Also have a look here for booting from open firmware: http://mac.linux.be/content/booting-open-firmware Op 27/6/2011 schreef "MetaCoreTechs" : >On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:57:42 -0700 >John Ames wrote: > >> Well, I tried burning the ISO (debian-6.0.1a-powerpc-netinst.iso) to >> CD and using an extern

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

2011-06-26 Thread MetaCoreTechs
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:57:42 -0700 John Ames wrote: > Well, I tried burning the ISO (debian-6.0.1a-powerpc-netinst.iso) to > CD and using an external CD drive (the Mac in question doesn't have an > internal CD.) No luck. > > Holding down C on boot does nothing, using Cmd+Option+Shift+Delete to >

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

2011-06-26 Thread John Ames
Well, I tried burning the ISO (debian-6.0.1a-powerpc-netinst.iso) to CD and using an external CD drive (the Mac in question doesn't have an internal CD.) No luck. Holding down C on boot does nothing, using Cmd+Option+Shift+Delete to force it not to load from the hard disk brings up an old-style "s

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
hird-party keyboards work for booting from CD. All my best - Chris Reich; Rochester, New York twittername: chrisreich --- On Fri, 6/24/11, John Ames wrote: From: John Ames Subject: How to install on Power Mac G5 from USB stick To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, June 24, 2011, 7:42 PM

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