b-rad, Now if only PPC64 Debian wasnt a PITA to install.
I would try it :D
b-rad, And yeah Im fully aware of the masochism required to use an old PPC Mac expecially on Linux heh
*especially
If I ever do get it working, thanks for the builds
once you figure it out it's not hard
it's just nearly none of the info out there works
the difficult part was getting mainline to run on ppc, the pmac defconfig does not boot
i looked at also picking up a cheap g5 tower but then sanity took over
from what i understand g5 ppc64 is getting really messed up by newer ppc64 arches
supposedly only up to 5.4 boots on ppc32 though, and I'm running 5.11
Yeah I have a PPC64 G% iMac
And half of the command in the recent guide dont exist in the community maintained Debian 10
*G5
The install works but I always mess up yaboot in one way or another
yeh that was very annoying
i hate yaboot, i switched to grub
I think I even tried to get grub working and something was wrong there too
If you havea  decent set of steps, that would be greatly appreciated
I'm heading out for the weekend in a few hours, next week I'll see if I can summon the info
Cheers
And yes TGIF
I like the though of my usb quadHD working on a 16yo ppc32, but I think it would have a heart attack if I tried to actually do much with it lol
I forgot they even had PPC Minis
Yeh I got the "top of the line" one for $70
The iMac was free hah
Spealing of odd things that you wouldnt think work. New Bluetooth keyboard working in the boot CLI https://photos.app.goo.gl/aC6cM1v9EVMWVekF7
*Speaking
it's actual bt and not bt to a usb dongle that advertises hid?
https://photos.app.goo.gl/qypvjSJk3U6RebgG7
The Apple dongle inside does
Which is neat
Also theres the hfsutils eror I was getting
I got around it by fixing the damn POSTINST script but didnt make it much farther past
I assume that was all for yaboot and grub may fix that
https://i.imgur.com/BxWMQdh.png
b-rad, Apple apparently has done the HID emulation ever since they started using Bluetooth. They pair the keyboard to the adpater itself instead of the OS handling it
Same idea as the newer Macs knowing WiFi information pre boot
So they can Internet recover