Re: How to install OpenBSD 6.9 on iBook G4 with USB drive ?

"Christoph R. Winter" <[email protected]> Sun, 13 Jun 2021 16:16:21 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.openbsd.ppc
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Sorry for the noise, I missread the OP‘s message (my fault) ;-)

As far as I can remember the G4‘s did not support to boot from USB drives. 




Christoph R. Winter
> Am 13.06.2021 um 13:08 schrieb Navan Carson <[email protected]>:
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>> On Jun 10, 2021, at 8:04 AM, Samuel VISCAPI <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> First post on this mailing-list :)
>> 
>> I attempted yesterday to install OpenBSD 6.9 on an iBook G4 / PowerBook
>> 6,7 (currently running MorphOS) with an USB drive. I downloaded this
>> image: https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.9/macppc/install69.iso and
>> dd'ed it on GNU/Linux Debian 11 x86_64 to a working USB drive with the
>> following command:
>> 
>> dd if=/path/to/install69.iso of=/dev/sda
>> 
>> Once the image properly copied to the USB
> 
> Do the .iso files work when written to a USB drive? Other architectures have .img files for that.