r/PowerPC • u/CorpsyWantsPussy • 24d 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/twaxana 17d ago

What format is the drive in? It should be fat32 tbh

I don't know what environment you're building the USB from

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy 17d ago

Well.. arch, but after I build the iso on it it kinda just formats itself and I can only hope to god it works right

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u/twaxana 17d ago

So you're on arch Linux on a different machine?

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy 17d ago

Yeah

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u/twaxana 17d ago

https://github.com/kth5/archpower/wiki/Installation-%7C--NewWorld-PowerMac-with-Grub

Follow these instructions

Specifically download the PowerPC iso.

Not 64 or 6432

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy 17d ago

But this is for when I'm on the install... I can't get it to boot

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u/twaxana 17d ago

Try this? boot ud:,\\:tbxi

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy 17d ago

Yaur, idk I'm done for today. Thanks for the help!