Re: Help with install on old Mac

2020-12-10 Thread Bob McGowan
On 12/5/20 1:47 AM, didier gaumet wrote: Hello Disclaimer: I am not familiar with Apple (old or new) hardware There is the Debian Jessie installation manual for the powerpc architecture: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/index.html.en the 3.6.1 section could explain why you have

Re: Help with install on old Mac

2020-12-05 Thread didier gaumet
Hello Disclaimer: I am not familiar with Apple (old or new) hardware There is the Debian Jessie installation manual for the powerpc architecture: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/index.html.en the 3.6.1 section could explain why you have difficulties to boot from your hard disk

Help with install on old Mac

2020-12-05 Thread Bob McGowan
It is a Power PC G3 running Mac OS 9. I've gotten CDs for Jessie 8.11, the last Debian release to support Power PC architecture. I set up a second SCSI hard disk with an Adaptec controller and installed to it successfully.  However, upon reboot the system does not start immediately.  When it