Comprehensive PowerPC USB boot guide and more

[jojo2k]

Hello all! There's lots of lovely resources here and elsewhere on the internet, but I wanted to take a crack at making a guide for installing OSX to a PowerPC Mac. The biggest hole in many guides I saw was making the bootable drive, which I included here. (However, even now it still technically has a hole because I don't have a surefire way to pass through USB devices reliably in QEMU, I'm new to it!) Given its length and how I want to edit and format it, it's just on my site for now, but maybe I can make a condensed version for this forum if that's better for the medium here. I'll be editing it and adding images as I go, but for now it still stands as a nice little guide documenting my experience installing Tiger to my iMac G3.

Anyways, for any newbies here, hope this helps! For any veterans, I'd love your feedback here or on my site. Thanks y'all!

Click here for my PowerPC USB Boot Macintosh guide and more

 

[barracuda156]

Hello all! There's lots of lovely resources here and elsewhere on the internet, but I wanted to take a crack at making a guide for installing OSX to a PowerPC Mac. The biggest hole in many guides I saw was making the bootable drive, which I included here. (However, even now it still technically has a hole because I don't have a surefire way to pass through USB devices reliably in QEMU, I'm new to it!) Given its length and how I want to edit and format it, it's just on my site for now, but maybe I can make a condensed version for this forum if that's better for the medium here. I'll be editing it and adding images as I go, but for now it still stands as a nice little guide documenting my experience installing Tiger to my iMac G3.

Anyways, for any newbies here, hope this helps! For any veterans, I'd love your feedback here or on my site. Thanks y'all!

Click here for my PowerPC USB Boot Macintosh guide and more

By the way, have you considered fixing ppc(32) host in Qemu?
Upstream could not care less, expectedly: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2606

 

[jojo2k]

If I'm reading that right and you need to compile it in Leopard, I'm probably not your guy since I am not looking to install a modified Leopard on my G3 (at least, not right now, maybe way down the line if I'm feeling bold).

 

[barracuda156]

If I'm reading that right and you need to compile it in Leopard, I'm probably not your guy since I am not looking to install a modified Leopard on my G3 (at least, not right now, maybe way down the line if I'm feeling bold).

If it gets fixed for Tiger, most likely Leopard will work as well. It is the reverse which often fails.