Re: PowerPC sid installation

[Richard Kuenz <richard.kuenz@web.de>]

Dear Rick,

thank you , but i cannot help myself thinking that booting from CD or 
NETINST is more diffiult than from DVD;
i had multiple times installed on G5 mac or g4 powerbook from a DVD 
alongside a Mac OS installation with no problem;

this powermac g4 has only CD Drive, and booting from external Firewire 
DVD seems very difficult,

so i downloaded several images, both NETINST (Wheezy, Jessie , SID) and 
CD Images;
after sorting out the problem with CD Media of low quality,
i finally could boot Adrian-s effort SidImage and it installed, with 
Automatic Partition on one Harddrive, alsonside Tiger,

but at Reboot, it would not recognized Yaboot;
then i installed Wheezy 7.11 from CD Image (CD1) and let the installer 
update the rest;
again it would not boot after succeusful installation

same with Netinst;

so i presume, i made an error with the automatic partitioning;
i don't know, there are 2 HFS partitions, one with OS , one blank,
and a 3 section for Linux debian;

Now i am trying Squeeze, maybe better luck with that;



Am 06.10.2017 um 20:43 schrieb Rick Thomas:
> Hi Richard,
>
> Don’t be confused by the name NETINST.  It means that, in order to keep the .iso image as small as possible, the installer is prepared to get most of its Debian packages from the repository mirrors on the network.
>
> You still do it the normal way — burn the .iso image to a CD and boot the CD in whatever way you are familiar with.  There will be a question or two during the install process about which repository mirror you want to access, but it’s otherwise normal.
>
> Hope that helps!
> Rick
>
> On Oct 6, 2017, at 3:44 AM, Richard Kuenz <richard.kuenz@web.de> wrote:
>
> > Thank you very much for supporting ,
> >
> > i downloaded the NETINST,
> >
> >
> > but how can i boot?
> >
> > i am used to go into OPEN FIRMWARE
> >
> > at start by pressing ALT+CMD+O+F
> > there i type
> >
> > boot cd:,\install\yaboot
> >
> >
> > supose that with NETINST the procedure is different?
> >
> >
> >
> > Am 06.10.2017 um 11:54 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> > > Hi Richard!
> > > Please don't hijack discussions but open a new thread for that. Otherwise
> > > the discussion becomes hard to follow in the mailing list archives.
> > > > if i install Wheezy on Powermac G4,
> > > > can i then update to Stretch?
> > > You can update it to Sid. There is no Stretch for PowerPC.
> > > To upgrade, just replace "wheezy" with "sid" in your /etc/apt/sources.list.
> > > > Or do i need to install Stretch from Netinstall to succeed?
> > > No.
> > > > Where could i download such image?
> > > Download "all files in zip" [1]. The ISO is contained in the ZIP file.
> > > > [1] http://jenkins.kfreebsd.eu/jenkins/view/cd/job/debian-cd_sid_powerpc/ws/