Re: OldWorld ROM Macintoshes

Adrian:

Thanks for your reply.  According to that article in my previous email,
those instructions should still work with kernel 6.1 or earlier.  Are
there any offline installer ISOs at
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/ which contain kernel <=6.1? 
It appears they're all 'net installs, which will download the latest
kernel from the repository.  Correct me if I'm wrong.

P.S. Does anyone know why this article would claim kernel >6.1 won't
work?

On Sat, 2025-08-23 at 12:55 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 2025-08-22 at 20:12 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote:
> > Can anyone provide any guidance on how to install Debian onto an
> > OldWorld ROM Macintosh?
> > 
> > I followed this gentleman's guide to the tee (before it was changed
> > to
> > read "OUTDATED") on my PDQ, but as soon as I selected "Linux" from
> > the
> > BootX prompt, I received a black screen, and was unable to progress
> > further.
> > 
> > https://distrosprojects.blogspot.com/2023/09/modern-debian-on-1998-powerbook-g3.html
> > 
> > I have struggled to find solid evidence to back the partitioning
> > choices, and nothing to explain my actual issue.
> 
> Last time I tried a recent kernel on an OldWorld PowerMac, the kernel
> crashed
> quite early and I didn't get to see any usable boot messages. There
> was a
> discussion on the topic on this list, see [1].
> 
> While I have an OldWorld PowerBook somewhere in my storage, I don't
> really have
> the time to look into this issue now so that someone else interested
> needs to
> do that.
> 
> It's not unusual for the kernel not to work on hardware on which it
> hasn't been
> tested on for a long time.
> 
> Adrian
> 
> > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2021/07/msg00050.html