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Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

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Hello,

 From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor is a 
powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian and nowadays the 
rare Linux ditros that still propose a powerpc64 portage do it for Litte 
Indian (ppc64el) as Debian do. So Debian is not compatible with your 
hardware.

The only distros I have found that seem to support your hardware are Gentoo
https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/ (download the PPC64 stage3 image, not 
the ppc or ppc64le ones)
and Adelie (the distro is in RC (release candidate) stage but ther are 
even live images)
https://www.adelielinux.org/download/

Even the *BSD seem to lack support for the Imac G5

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Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc) Pat Pathmanathan <pat.pathmanathan@gmail.com> - 2021-05-02 14:40 +0200
  Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc) Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2021-05-02 16:40 +0200
  Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc) didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2021-05-02 16:40 +0200
    Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-02 16:50 +0200
      Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc) didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2021-05-02 19:40 +0200
      Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc) didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2021-05-02 19:40 +0200
        Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc) Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2021-05-02 21:20 +0200
  Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc) "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-05-02 17:20 +0200

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