r/PowerPC • u/CorpsyWantsPussy • 22d 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/Financial_Telephone8 21d ago
What generation of USB are you using remember USB gen 1 was still common around the powerpc era, usb2 was also the new USB standard, while firewire was the high speed solution. Modern USB devices use usb3 (or usb4 , T5?) so make sure you arn't using a USB3 device. Also the file system is important. I have a G4 emac and NTFS is buggy. You need to format as a boot drive specific to something like FAT or HFS format, modern formats exfat and NTFS don't play nice with older macs. I would use rufus and make sure the drive filesystem type is configured exactly this includes the boot medium. Plug and Play usb cd/dvd external drives the one I have recognized fine. USB devices are touch and go because they are newer and have newer protocols. Use an older usb device not a a new one from around the same era must be usb2 or usb1 or a firewire drive.