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Debian Sid Installation Guide (PowerPC)

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Anyone else finding broken Netinstall ISOs that don't install gnupg so you have no keys to install software from apt?
 
PowerPC74 said:
Anyone else finding broken Netinstall ISOs that don't install gnupg so you have no keys to install software from apt?
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It’s either in this thread or the other thread on installing Linux that this is mentioned and the work around for it, if I recall correctly.

I will say this, I did get Sid installed and had all drivers working on my iBook G4 but running apt update and apt upgrade borked the install… and that is to be expected as Sid is the unstable and experimental build.

You didn’t ask but my suggestion is to try OpenBSD or Adélie Linux.

Personally, the only PPC computer I use anymore is my PowerBook G4 15” Aluminium and it runs Leopard and I run old applications like abandonware and games.

My point is you wrestle Debian Sid on to your PPC Mac, and indeed may get everything working but at some point you’ll want to install something, and that application or one of it’s dependencies will thrash your install, hence I suggest Mac OS X, OpenBSD, or Adélie.

Good luck!
 
danielktdoranie said:
It’s either in this thread or the other thread on installing Linux that this is mentioned and the work around for it, if I recall correctly.

I will say this, I did get Sid installed and had all drivers working on my iBook G4 but running apt update and apt upgrade borked the install… and that is to be expected as Sid is the unstable and experimental build.

You didn’t ask but my suggestion is to try OpenBSD or Adélie Linux.

Personally, the only PPC computer I use anymore is my PowerBook G4 15” Aluminium and it runs Leopard and I run old applications like abandonware and games.

My point is you wrestle Debian Sid on to your PPC Mac, and indeed may get everything working but at some point you’ll want to install something, and that application or one of it’s dependencies will thrash your install, hence I suggest Mac OS X, OpenBSD, or Adélie.

Good luck!
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That's why we run the Mac OS isn't it. I just need to poke around on a GPIO and the only real tools for that are on linux, but I can't seem to get a working install anymore....
 
danielktdoranie said:
Correct, just PowerPC 32-bit. I don’t own any G5 Macs so it’s not something I regularly consider.

If a G5 Mac was to come into my possession today I would run Adélie Linux as they have a PPC64 build

NOTE: When I installed Adélie on one of my G4 Macs the hard drive partitioning tool failed during install so I had to drop to a bash prompt and manually partition. This was a known issue, however this was a year ago and may be resolved now.
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And... i can confirm that it still fails after all this time and many people reporting it. Plus not everyone knows how to "drop to a bash prompt and manually partition". Just saying. i don't get why they don't consider it important that their system can not be installed. But, well...
 
saxfun said:
I didn't power on this PB since AUG 2024. It had no battery and maybe the PRAM is defective.
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Make sure that you have ntp installed
Code: 
apt install ntp
as you need to have the correct time and date. On my old iBook the battery that keeps the date and time correct is dead, so syncing with a time server is needed. You may need to add:

deb [arch=all] http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main

to the apt sources list with

Code: 
apt edit-sources

then update

Code: 
apt update
apt install ntp
 
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