Installing Debian SID on a Power Mac G5

[@danaeckel5523]

If you want to know fun, try installing Debian SID on a beige G3. Mine has been upgraded to SSD, G4 upgrade, and Radeon Mac Edition. Yeah it is slow, but able to use LXDE as desktop, and Netsurf to browse the net some. I also have an iMac G5 and Debian SID 64-bit works ok. That is setup with Mate, and Arctic Fox is still quite slow on it.

[@Thitiroux]

Hi i just stumbled upon your video, would you know how i could bypass the installer getting stuck on smp_core99_bringup_done?

[@michaelharmon5502]

I've been trying to do this on my dual 2.5GHz G5 but never got it to install. There were problems with the installer not working with the ethernet hardware and then the grub install would fail. Could you please include a link to the Debian ISO file you used to burn your installer DVD? I can only seem to find the Little Endian versioin pf Debian 11 ppc64.

[@MikhailMikhalov]

Добрый день. Я тоже очень хочу перевести свой G5 2.5 ГГц на Линукс пожалуйста помогите с образом и инструкцией установки

[@oldtechie6834]

The resolution is so poor on this video despite the fact the KZbin calls this a 1080HD video.

[@charliesretrocomputing]

It's really high resolution wdym?

[@doctorplayboy200]

How did you fix the nvidia issue? I’m stuck on the same error.

[@markdoestechthings]

Sorry that I am just now seeing this but honestly, for me it works most of the time but is finicky still. I ended up using an adapter for; dvi > vga first, next I tried dvi > vga > hdmi, and finally I managed to obtain a dvi cable, I didn't have one at the time unfortunately. It ended up working fine most of the time for me with dvi however, sometimes I would have to swap between the setups, and after a few tries/reboots, it always seems to work itself out. Too bad it's not very ideal or practical sadly.

[@jamesfatula5824]

mirror sites are broken im unable to get full packages only system-utils are availble ...

[@jbettcher1]

Having this issue as well. Trying to dig into this. Very annoying

[@jamesfatula5824]

@@jbettcher1 yrep outdated ...they shouldnt remove ppc64 and pc packages!

[@jbettcher1]

@@jamesfatula5824 I was able to install OpenSUSE tumbleweed using GPT partition scheme and booting into it from an Adelie grub menu. Installed a proper boot loader after, only Linux distro so far not to give me issues with my Quadro FX 4500. (quad G5 setup)

[@jamesfatula5824]

Mine is ago fx5200 on g5 pci-x version same thing suse tumbleweed won't work either ......

[@warclan5429]

I ve seen many variances in video response, depending on the linux versions and brandnames running in the same machine, say intel for example Mint and RedHat. I assume the release of ppc may be done using the most less demanding graphic card and video optimization is not existent, you have to find the right video drivers for ATI that I believe is the default video Card the G5 was sold as default. as you described the PPC releases are mostly abandoned so if you want to use better graphics the driver must be recompiled for this machine. I feel you can have the same performance between a Raspberry Pi and this machine. it is just a nostalgia issue other than that is useless for 2022.