Re: Help with install on old Mac
On 12/5/20 1:47 AM, didier gaumet wrote:
Hello
Disclaimer: I am not familiar with Apple (old or new) hardware
There is the Debian Jessie installation manual for the powerpc architecture:
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/index.html.en
the 3.6.1 section could explain why you have difficulties to boot from your hard disk:
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/ch03s06.html.en#invoking-openfirmware
but the link indicated to upgrade is broken
http://gnats.netbsd.org/43952 provides an updated link:
wget http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Mac_OS_X/System_Disk_Utility.smi.bin
On a side note, NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD all seem to have present version of their OS for the mac powerpc architecture:, NetBSD probably being the most advanced and supported (FreeBSD: WIP):
http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/
keep us informed if you have succeeded :-)
Hello Didier,
Thanks for the links. I too had noticed some of the Debian links were
broken.
I did try a different, smaller, USB stick for the firmware, but it did
not help. Plus some of the info from other pages suggested at least one
partition name might be wrong. So I decided to follow your suggestion
to look into the BSD systems.
I chose NetBSD and have successfully installed it. But again, getting
the system to boot into it is proving a challenge.
Since I'm now using NetBSD, I'll be taking this conversation over to
their lists.
But I may ultimately retry getting Linux up on the machine.
We'll see how it goes.
Thanks again,
Bob
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