Hello,

i have tried quit a lot, but my dual core G5 2004, is not able to see any files on USB drivers in Open firmware. Image is fine, Linux is it and able to get files list through commands from other storage device fine, but never on USB. im sure about right alias etc.. There is simply not device list usb flashdisk as nothing is connect, only usb keyboard + mouse..

  I suspect that not all USB sticks are compatible, my is Sandisk USB 3. maybe that is the problem. Its 20 GB image, so i not have other so big flashdrives free and its erasing whole disk, what is not ideal for me.
  BTW writing data to flashdrive takes a lot of time because of majority of it its free place to clone it to target.. but im partition resize could be done easily through command added to installer, instead of copying 10 GB of raw data.. or install can create bigger partion from the start and use something more clever than dd.

 So for me it would be much better to have some live / install Dual layer iso, real data are smaller than 8.5.. i know that there is Debian netinstall, but its slow with downloading nad i has broken grub etc.

  I tried to somehow convert USB data to ISO DVD fomat, b make some install iso, proven to be beyond my skils, because USB are using 2 partitions and there some USB specific data it seems and extracting data from img file with 7zip not worked for all the data. 
  Also make new image from already made USB installer, could bypass 7zip extraction problem, but simply copy all data to 1 partition / folder and make iso from its not enough.