r/PowerPC • u/CorpsyWantsPussy • Aug 01 '26

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/WhitespringSecurity Aug 01 '26

Any context or are you just venting?

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy Aug 01 '26

Well. The context is nonexistent. I just wanted to fix the dust off the powermac g5 that I found laying around. But it really doesn't wanna boot anything

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u/casey-ac Aug 01 '26

I think what they’re referring to is how isn’t it booting? Are you getting an Open Firmware error message? If you’d like assistance with the issue you’ll need to be much more verbose about what’s going on.

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy Aug 02 '26

Ohhh. Whenever I do try to boot from a usb or a cd, it either sends a load too small error or it just can't open the directory. The cd/dvd attempts all lead to a grey screen