Re: Installation, Debian 12, iMac G5, USB thumb drive => “Your installation media couldn’t be mounted. “

[Joe Flowers <joe.flowers@nofreewill.com>]

Thanks, John, especially for the detail.

I love this thing. It is a great tool and has already helped me tremendously with the PowerPC-based IoT devices I have to work on.

I am so thankful to you and all for this distro and help..

On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Hi Joe,

On Wed, 2025-09-03 at 08:09 -0400, Joe Flowers wrote:
> Thanks, Cedar!
>
> The machine is working great except for the built-in Ethernet adapter, but I can live with the USB to Ethernet dongle.
>
> John's response pushed me to the "Guided" setup, and it worked great!
>
> Thanks for the GUI recommendations. I have made a note of them.  
>
>
> MacOSX is long gone on this machine. ifconfig is not on Debian, apparently.

"ifconfig" is still available if you install the net-tools package.

Otherwise, the modern equivalent is "ip", see:

https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/replacing-ifconfig-ip/

Adrian

--
 .''`.  John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
: :' :  Debian Developer
`. `'   Physicist
  `-    GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546  0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913