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[prairie zephyr <prairie_zephyr@xxxxxxx>]

	Thanks! I'd heard rumours of usb boot workarounds before but never the recipe.
	I've done lots of firewire target mac installing (saved me a couple of times) but got nowhere aiming Linux ISOs at mounted FW targets trying from OSX Mtn Lion, getting less Unix all the time.
	G4/5 = Leopard-max / G3 Tiger-max, ppc needs Linux or die. These ATI cards are useless for video but 1.42 & 1.25 GHz are still half-decent machines, G5s can still do some heavy lifting. My G3 is more like toy status; I just reinstalled OS9 after a LVM install claimed ownership: what a blast from the past! (y2k) lol  All this info gives me incentive to try again to get the DVD-less testing, do what I can to keep ppc demand for distros alive - wish I'd gotten the 13.04 radeon cards tested in time to file better bug reports ...next time, thanks again


On 2013-04-12, at 2:26 PM, Str8bs <str8bslinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ..Regarding graphics. IMHO, that problem is somewhat self-propagated by the
> PPC community in general downloading
> Xorg.conf workarounds or disabling drivers instead of letting developers
> know that PPC users exist and care by filing and following up
> on bug reports.
> 
		Yes + Mac had <5% of the market in ppc era - they're not the target PCs are 4 Linux

> For creating the bootable USB, I always do it from within Linux and don't
> use the hdiutil stuff.
> **CAUTION** dd will overwrite/destroy anything after the "of=" and it won't
> ask if you are sure first.
> Make sure you are writing to your USB stick.
> 1. sudo fdisk -l and note the location of your USB stick. Will be something
> like /dev/sdb (or /dev/sdc, etc.)
> 2. sudo dd if=/Downloads/Whatever/nameofyourdownloaded.iso of=/dev/sdb
> bs=1M; sync
> Where if=the path to your ISO download and of= the path to your USB stick.
> 
> **The following is specific to PPC.
> 
> Booting. I've never tried a G4 and haven't succeeded on G5 yet. I'll try a
> better detail later, but for now this is on a G3:
> (Note: early G3's that do NOT have a firewire port generally do not support
> USB boot either.)
> 1. Hold <command><option><o><f> at power on.
> 2. without quotes "dev / ls" and enter
> 3. You are looking at a tree view of the path. Note that anything indented
> will have a "parent" above it. In other words,
> to get the whole path you have to look at the lines above.
> 4. Verify you can "see" inside the disk using dir and the path you noted.
> Example: /pci@f2000000/usb@19/disk@1:2,\
> 5. Once you see a directory listing, Just change it to "boot
> /pci@f2000000/usb@19/disk@1:2,\\yaboot" where the path matches yours.
> 
> You can also type "devalias" to get a list of short names and use those
> instead. The PPC FAQ has more on that.
> 
> Alternate method for booting oversize ISO's if you have more than one
> FireWire equipped Mac and one has DVD/SuperDrive. 
> You can use that Mac as an external DVD drive. "Backwards Target Mode"
> 1. Put your burned DVD/DVD-RW in the MAC with DVD drive.
> 2. Put it in "Target Mode" by holding down "t" at power on.
> 3. Connect FireWire cable between that Mac and the one you are installing
> to.
> 4. Boot this second Mac holding the alt key. You should see the DVD in the
> other Mac as a boot option. 
> 5. Select it and click the right arrow.
> *Note. The installer will see the hard drives in BOTH Mac's. Make sure you
> pick the correct one to install on.
> *Never install Linux TO a target, but only FROM. Unlike OSX, it is important
> the installer detects hardware on the machine it will be booting from.
> I've only tested this using a first gen G5 as the "external target mode
> drive" installing to a G3.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> Str8
> 
> From: Lubuntu-qa
> [mailto:lubuntu-qa-bounces+str8bslinux=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of prairie zephyr
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 12:40 PM
> To: lubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Lubuntu-qa] lubuntu/daily/ size larger than stated
> 
> ...If anyone in the ppc
> world knows how to circumvent the ppc USB boot problem and has time to write
> a short primer for me, I'll post it (credited) on my ppc Lubuntu wiki so its
> recent googleable. I've looked and haven't found…

>   Every new Linux kernel seems to have a new reason why radeon doesn't work.
>