Re: Worked with a Firewire drive, but now I'm hanging again
Hi Richard,
I've been running sid for some time now - on my iMac G5 (radeon), and it works fine.
Just had an issue at one time, but, as I also got a Debian stable on the same machine, after a couple of weeks in limbo, I just chroot and did an update/upgrade and it went ok again. Suppose the issue was solved meanwhile.
I had wheezy (mintppc) on my PowerBooktill now, and as I needed to start filling in a "simple" installation manual (we would like to write a kind of starter's manual http://wiki.powerprogress.org/DebianPowerPcStartersManual), so I installed sid on it...
About the reasons why to run sid... Simple.
- We're ( PowerProgressCommunity http://www.powerprogress.org ) trying to help the Debian powerpc community by testing Debian unstable.
- We would like to use it for our future PowerPC notebook http://www.powerpc-notebook.org - we're still working on it (hardware design with Acube http://acube-systems.biz/ ) - and we're looking for people to help us (volunteers / donations).
- We would like to help people install Debian powerpc on PowerPC Macs because they're still very able machines - and we would like to show Debian community we need Debian PowerPC to become a supported release again.
- We would like to learn more about the inners of Debian.
And I can give you more reasons.... (some would sound crazy - so I'll stop here).
Best Regards,
Fadi.
En date de : Ven 19.5.17, Richard Kuenz <richard.kuenz@web.de> a écrit :
Objet: Re: Worked with a Firewire drive, but now I'm hanging again
À: "Fadi Osman" <fospot-ppc@yahoo.com>, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, "Carlos" <powerpc1990@gmail.com>
Date: Vendredi 19 mai 2017, 8h17
Fadi,
i tried Jessie on a Powerbook
G4 15' (radeon) 1,67 and i could achieve
easy installation and also 3D accelleration
with the help of this
section here
http://ppcluddite.blogspot.it/2012/03/installing-debian-linux-on-ppc-part-iv.html
Did not update to Sid , though.
Why, if ever, should one do that, at this
point?
But i rememeber, on my Imac G5, Sid
would work, but some things started
to
become, strange and i reverted then. Could not remember
though if it
was the Imac g5 with Nvidia or
the Radeon G5 one.
Cheers,
Richard
On 19.05.2017 07:59, Fadi Osman wrote:
> Hello Carlos,
>
> about booting on USB stick , I have tried
installing sid (unstable) on PowerBook G4 Aluminum 15'
(radeon) and it works (somehow...).
>
(maybe it is the way you've written the ISO to USB
drive...)
>
> Here are
the notes about the installation:
> http://wiki.powerprogress.org/DebianPowerPcStartersManual#Installation_of_Debian_powerpc
>
> Unfortunately - I
think I'm having the BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH issue (with
radeon).
>
> Funny
thing though, everything works just after the installation -
but booting the next day gets me into the black screen of
death.
>
> I'm
doing the installation again this week-end, and I'll
keep the logs for a successful xserver start to compare them
with the logs for unsuccessful start.
>
> Good luck,
> Fadi.
>
>
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> En date de : Jeu 18.5.17, Carlos <powerpc1990@gmail.com>
a écrit :
>
>
Objet: Re: Worked with a Firewire drive, but now I'm
hanging again
> À: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Date: Jeudi 18 mai 2017, 16h52
>
> Hello guys,
>
> now I have copied
the ISO to a Firewire
> drive.
>
> First I got an
error
> during installation.
> Then I typed
>
„install32 video=ofonly“
>
> This worked :-)
>
But now I’m
> hanging at „Detect
and mount CD-ROM“ in the main menu of
> the installer.
>
The installer said, no CD-ROM
> drive
found. Now he forces me to define the directory of the
> driver. But I don’t know this.
>
> A also can’t open
the shell. Alt+F2 don’t
> work.
>
> Any advise,
> please
>
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