On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:05:07AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Miro Jurišić writes: > > What's the current story on getting Debian installed on G5s? > > My latest experience, dating back a few months, involved netboot [1]. > But d-i has come a long way since, so I expect you will be able to use > d-i. In any case, you should be able to use d-i on the G5, so please > stay tuned until your problem is solved. > > > I have not been able to find an ISO that will boot the machine (I > > have tried d-i beta 4, d-i test candidate 1, d-i current as of > > 6/22/04, and > > Make sure you select a power4 flavour - that's what the machine's > processor really is, despite Apple calling it G5. If it still doesn't > boot, tell us how *exactly* it doesn't boot. > > > 2.6.6-g5 kernel > > That whole package was an ugly hack to work around a kernel bug. It > has gone in the latest revisions, so don't use it. On a dual G5, you > want power4-smp.
Yup. You'll very likely need to use a "sid_d-i" build, though; I only made those changes five days ago, so they won't be in the "sarge_d-i" == "daily" builds yet. Either of the images in http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/20040622/ ought to work. Installation reports, successful or otherwise, gratefully appreciated. Please make sure you say from exactly which URL you downloaded the image. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
