success on a PowerPC iMac 6,1

[Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I thought I would mention a successful debian install on a PowerPC iMac 6,1:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor : 0

cpu : 7455, altivec supported

clock : 999.999997MHz

revision : 3.3 (pvr 8001 0303)

bogomips : 66.56

timebase : 33280357

platform : PowerMac

model : PowerMac6,1

machine : PowerMac6,1

motherboard : PowerMac6,1 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh

detected as : 287 (Flat panel iMac)

pmac flags : 00000010

L2 cache : 256K unified

pmac-generation : NewWorld

Memory : 768 MB

I used the cd from 

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-04-17/

as the more recent CD I tried did not work, as per this message I found later:

 <https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2021/09/msg00008.html>

following that the installation went smoothly through, looking much like the screen capture images here in this walkthough:

<https://www.danielmartingonzalez.com/en/installing-debian-10-from-scratch/>

I chose the “entire disc” installation method to keep things simpler, and I chose the LXDE desktop, as on a previous attempt using the default choice of the Xfce desktop there was an error.

It is quite neat to see this system able to run current versions of rust, ghc, llivm/clang-13, gcc-11.2, etc.

thanks to all for all your efforts.

I have four more Apple PPC machines to work on next over the coming few weeks. The next efforts will be a couple of Dual-G5s I have nearby.

Best,

Ken