You can start downloading the 64-bits iso and install MintPPC / 64 as it has been tested: it works now.
Category Archives: Installation
MintPPC for G5 not working yet
Yesterday it was “saxfun” in the Macrumors forum who successfully installed MintPPC for the first time on his PowerBook G4. It shows that the MintPPC installation image for G3 and G4, which is 32-bits, works well. Another person (MacBoer on the same forum) tried the 64-bits image on his G5 iMac but he was unsuccessful. …
Installer
What a journey it is to get MintPPC automatically installed. Yesterday I finally made a breakthrough. The installer is now able to detect my local repository, the Debian-ports repository, to add the required keys and to start downloading and installing all required packages to get to the MintPPC desktop. There is still one problem, which …
Manual installation MintPPC
I will give some guidance on how to manually install the Mint layer on top of Debian sid. Debian sid can be installed as described in my other post. There is a glitch in video now. We need to fix that first. Boot the system in recovery mode and do the following: mv /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so.bak …
Installation woes
For the past couple of days I have been trying to get MintPPC installed in an easy way onto my iBook. I found out that using a preseed file with a repository elsewhere won’t work as the modern Debian netinstaller does not accept repositories as the installer environment does not have gpg to its disposal. …
Installing Debian sid LXDE
For those of you who are willing to go down the rabbit hole, I hereby present a quick guide to get Debian sid with an LXDE desktop installed reliably on PowerPC based computers. Quick installation guide Install an lxde-desktop with the latest sid image:G3/G4: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-04-01/debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.isoG5: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-04-01/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.isoolder working images:https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-06-18/debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso and the corresponding pp64 variant at the …