woes of installation of debian on G5
I am writing to elicit some help in sorting through why my attempts to
install debian-40r0-powerpc-DVD-1.iso do not work.
I have a Mac G5 on which I have put a new Seagate 500GB disk that I
want to install debian on. I have Disk Utility to assign around 50 GB
to a mac os extended journaled partition and around 425 GB to Free
Space. I then put in the dvd for the above mentioned flavor of debian
and boot with 'c' held down. Sometimes it boots the dvd. When it
does, I see the usual boot options. I choose power64 since that is
what the instructions indicate and proceed along with the install.
All apparently goes well. The installation completes, I remove the
dvd and reboot as instructed. When the options come up I see the usual
and expected l, x, and c. However, no matter which option I choose I
get the white screen of death, truly an out of body experience...:).
I have tried several of the other options such as install, install
video=ofonly, install64 video=ofonly, None work. The latter two just
give me the info
done
/pci80.f0000000/ATY,RocketParent@10/ATY, opening..._ on the white background
and this never progresses.
For the install64 to go so apparently smoothly and then the thing does
not boot properly it very very disturbing.
I note that I have just this week moved or wanted to move from ydl to
debian because quite frankly ydl does not have the software support of
already built things I really need. Debian on the face of it does.
However, when I installed ydl last week everything went smoothly AND
it worked with no glitches. So, I am quite perplexed.
Can those of you on the list who have done what I am trying to do
please help me out? I can provide as much detail as needed. Just did
not want to over populate this query with all the gory details.
Maybe I am doing something wrong? Surely people who have put up
debian 4-r0 on a G5 will have solved problems that I may be
overlooking.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Comer Duncan
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