On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 01:54:09AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hi Art, > > I doubt you can buy a Lenny DVD these days. Your best bet is to find a > friend with a working DVD burner. > > After you've got a bootable DVD, take a look at the documentation that > Narcis Garcia linked to in his reply. Installing on a PowerPC machine is > not different in any important way from installing on an x86 or amd64 > machine, but it helps to read the docs in any case...
Well the bootloader is different in general, but yeah other than that it is pretty similar. > Hope that helps! > Rick > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Art Grandi <wanwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Rick! > > > > Thanks for your Quick answer. Yes it is a G3 and it is the one model Apple > > made impossible to boot with anyother mac OS version than the exact version > > that came originnally with it. > > > > I thought lenny would be also a Little lighter than modwern versions, as > > it is an o´lder computer with just 526 MB RAM. > > > > I have lost much time the last 2 months trying to burn DVDs from different > > versions of Linux -Debian, Mint, Ubuntu and Fedora with an external USB > > DVD. In the past I Always burned from my Windows machine which has an > > internal burner, but now I want to become independent of windows. > > > > The Jessie version a I tried 8,01 started to install but when i made some > > mistake informing hostname it failed and tjhe mac Went dead. > > > > So now I want to try lenny on the dead mac, via yaboot which i iam trying > > to learn. I have downloaded Lenny jigdo from my Linux machine and got > > positive information from the jigdo that the files were good. I can click > > on the DVD´s Icon and see the folders and files in them. > > > > Tried to burn them from many combinations of Linux and burners, both > > graphic and command line without success. I Think it must have been an > > unlucky combination of problems as Xfburn refuses in all my Linux version > > to recognize media in my external DVD, although ´computer can > > browse through the DVDs. Brasero could in some versions burn Lennyu to the > > DVDs, but the result was a "bin" file EVEN when i choosed "Iso9660" as the > > file type in the Brasero option. The way I always burn DVD images in linux is: growisofs -Z /dev/dvdrw=debianimage.iso -dvd-compat I have seen that a lot of external USB dvd writers can read USB powered but can only reliably write if using an external power supply. Also some are DVD-R or DVD+R only, and not both for writing. growisofs is part of the dvd+rw-tools in some Debian releases, and a seperate package in others (although dvd+rw-tools will depend on growisofs if it is seperate). -- Len Sorensen