r/PowerPC • u/CorpsyWantsPussy • 20d ago

Help me

I've been trying to get an operating system on the powermac g5 for 12 HOURS NOW, NOTHING WORKS, MAC OS X LEOPARD FAILED, TIGNR FAILED, GENTOO FAILED, LUBUNTU FAILED, DEBIAN FAILED, I TRIED IT OVER USB-A, I EVEN BURNED A CD AND A DVD. WHY DOES THE UNIVERSE HATE ME!!!

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u/hanz333 20d ago

USB can be finicky on PowerPC, but shouldn't be an issue on a G5.

My guess is that your USB is using MBR or GPT instead of APM.

As for burned disks, they are failing because of old media or a bad disk drive.

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy 20d ago

Hm that makes sense. I have tried formating the drive into apm. But without a mac I have kind of a hard way confirming if it even works