Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Pat Pathmanathan wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian 10.9 on the old iMac G5. I burned the
> 'debian-10.9.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso’ [..]
>  I was
> able to install Ubuntu Mate 16.04 for powerpc without any problem.

Possibly you want Debian for "ppc64" or "powerpc".
At least the boot equipment of debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso and
debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso looks like the one of
ubuntu-mate-16.04-desktop-powerpc.iso.
(I.e. CHRP MBR partition and Apple Partition Map announcing a HFS
filesystem. Made by genisoimage. The Debian ppc64el ISO has only CHRP
and was made by xorriso.)

See
  https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64
  https://wiki.debian.org/PowerPC

The latter mentions "G5 Power Macs".

There is a mailing list
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/
where searching for "G5" yields lots of hits
  https://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?P=G5&DEFAULTOP=or&B=Gdebian-powerpc&SORT=&HITSPERPAGE=10

So i guess your goal is on topic there.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas