Re: how to install debian on imac?
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:20:37PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 08:27:32PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > Hi Joel
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:11:36AM +1200, Joel van Velden wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > I'd like to install debian onto an iMac G5, but im not sure where to start.
> >
> >
> > Either am I .. :) .. But if someone would donate me a G5 ( .... :) I'd
> > try to download a CD image from e.g.
> > http://debian.planetmirror.com/pub/debian-cd/images/3.1_r0a/powerpc/iso-cd/
> > (if I was in New Zealand, that is)
>
> You could also try out this one :
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/current/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso
>
> Which needs testing, and has a ppc64 2.6.12 kernel.
[ ... ]
Ah yes. So your message together with this page:
<http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/READ_ME>
looks to me like ppc64 isn't supported yet in
stable/testing/unstable. Please correct me someone if I'm wrong ..
Anyway:
Most packages for ppc64 seem to be ready for testing or unstable,
IINM ..
An excerpt from this READ_ME from the page above:
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6. Status of the PPC64 Port
The ppc64 archive on alioth has about 95% of the source packages
from Debian 'unstable' compiled.
Most of the missing packages fail to build because of serious bugs
which are not ppc64 specific.
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HTH
BestRegards
Wolfgang
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