Another plug for a debian PowerPC FAQ for Apple systems ...

[Ken Cunningham]

As per the last time this came up a couple of years ago, the same set of questions with the same series of answers keep coming up every few months on this list regarding installing debian on PowerPC macs.

We had a few keen volunteers back then who were interested in spearheading a FAQ to help people through these installation issues, and Adrian indicated that although he didn't have time to write such a document, he'd be happy to review it and offer corrections back then.

I'm not exactly sure why the FAQ didn't happen last time -- I got the feeling it was felt to be unnecessary? .. but as recent events would indicate, seems like it is still a fair idea.

It would certainly help folks who keep running into the exact same issues over and over, as most of them just all came up once again in the past month, with the exact same answers as before.

Ken

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 7:47 PM Ken Cunningham

Post by Ken Cunningham
As per the last time this came up a couple of years ago, the same set of questions with the same series of answers keep coming up every few months on this list regarding installing debian on PowerPC macs.
We had a few keen volunteers back then who were interested in spearheading a FAQ to help people through these installation issues, and Adrian indicated that although he didn't have time to write such a document, he'd be happy to review it and offer corrections back then.
I'm not exactly sure why the FAQ didn't happen last time -- I got the feeling it was felt to be unnecessary? .. but as recent events would indicate, seems like it is still a fair idea.
It would certainly help folks who keep running into the exact same issues over and over, as most of them just all came up once again in the past month, with the exact same answers as before.

I think there's a curated FAQ for PowerPC on the Debian wiki at
<https://wiki.debian.org/PowerPC/FAQ>. Also see
<https://wiki.debian.org/PowerPC>.

Jeff

[Ken Cunningham]

Post by Jeffrey Walton
I think there's a curated FAQ for PowerPC on the Debian wiki at
<https://wiki.debian.org/PowerPC/FAQ>. Also see
<https://wiki.debian.org/PowerPC>.
Jeff

Thanks Jeff, I recall you were one of the folks interested in spearheading a current FAQ...

Those are all looking very dated to me... for example, they don't mention the magical ISO that folks need to use to have any chance of success at installing debian on an Apple system.

But they are perhaps a place to start.

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hello Ken,

Post by Ken Cunningham
As per the last time this came up a couple of years ago, the same set of
questions with the same series of answers keep coming up every few months
on this list regarding installing debian on PowerPC macs.

Adding to this, it would be great if we could create a wiki page with all the

Post by Ken Cunningham
https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-ports-todo.txt

Getting hfsprogs fixed up and convince someone at Apple to relicense the code
under a DFSG-compliance license would fix the bootloader issues on PowerMac
once and for all.

Adrian