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Also, try asking in http://forums.debian.net/ ... :) I really should try 
this on my very old 15" PowerBook G4 1 Ghz with its Mac OS X v10.2.8. :(

Michal Krzysztof Feiler <archiet@platinum.edu.pl> wrote:
> Hello,

> I am currently trying to install GNU/Linux on my PowerMac G5 alongside
> macOS 10.5.8.

> tl;dr: this whole paragraph is solely about Fedora, skip to the next one ---
> I've been trying Fedora25, but the graphical installer requires more RAM
> (I have just 1GB, though waiting for the delivery of 4GB for upgrade),
> and the text-only installer first crashed on something related to the
> macOS HDD (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1368932), and
> after unplugging it it had some problems with the mirrors, as neither
> the "Closest mirror" nor "https://"???"https://archive.fedoraproject.org/
> pub/fedora-secondary/releases/25/Everything/ppc64/os/" (nor "http://" ??? "",
> that one causes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1368932)
> worked (the following option regarding the software choice still could
> not proceed).

> So I've decided to try Debian. I've downloaded
> http://gemmei.acc.umu.se/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/
> debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso to my PowerMac, checked the checksum,
> burned it with Disk Utility (with verification) and booted it up by
> pressing C during boot, as usual. After the usual gray screen, the
> screen that followed was a black screen with iirc one-pixel blue strips
> equally spaced every one to four millimeters (1280×1024 19"). As the
> G5s, when their cooling is not controlled by software, speed up to
> maximum after some timeout, and then the unit turns off after some more,
> this is what follows (the same would happen with a working Fedora
> install if I would not run `modprobe i2c-powermac` and possibly also
> `modprobe rack-meter` soon enough).

> Any ideas?

> Cheers,

> Michael

> P.S. BTW, that's my first message on Usenet ;)

> P.P.S. I doubt that it will help, but I will also try stable 8.6.0,
> exactly as described in what I am trying to follow:
> https://github.com/masterzorag/G5_ppc64-linux
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Cannot boot Debian Testing netinst on a PowerMac G5, vertical blue stripes Michal Krzysztof Feiler <archiet@platinum.edu.pl> - 2017-01-09 02:10 +0000
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