Hi Federico,
if it didn't work for you, I would rather try with Debian.
CU
Claudia
Am Dienstag, 23. Januar 2024, 15:05:06 CET schrieb Federico Vaga:
> Hi Claudia and all,
>
> this is a very interesting coincidence. I've started trying a couple of
> days
> a go to install Debian 12 on the same iMac.
>
> In my case, I'm booting the netinst image from USB but the kernel
> crashes
> somewhere. The screen is not refreshed after a few kernel messages, so I
> was
> not able to debug any further.
>
> On the web I've found this project https://fienixppc.blogspot.com/ and I
> their
> suggestion about a video driver misconfiguration and a possible
> solution.
>
> See https://fienixppc.blogspot.com/p/troubleshooting-of.html
>
> None of the options, helped me. But I did not try to investigate more
> since
> then. Perhaps you will have better luck :)
>
> On 2024-01-23 14:54, Claudia Neumann wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have an iMac G5, PowerMac 12,1 PPC970FX, Platform: PowerMac 12,1
> > MacRISC4 Power Macinstosh, Memory 1GB+384MB.
> > I had installed Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS and it was running fine. Now I need
> > newer libc and so on. So I wanted to install Debian 12 or even Debian
> > 13 on this iMac.
> > Is that possible? I tried
> >
> > debian-12.4.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso
> > but the iMac does not start from the DVD.
> > What can I do?
> > CU
> > Claudia
>
> --
> Federico Vaga