#Debian macbook g4 mac os x
#Debian macbook g4 install
#Debian macbook g4 driver
#Debian macbook g4 Pc

In some respects, it’s more like an aluminum-clad 12″ iBook upgraded with a G4 than a low-end PowerBook. It supports 10 and 100 Mbps ethernet, but not gigabit ethernet. It’s also the only current model without DVI support and an official memory ceiling of 640 MB.

#Debian macbook g4 Pc

The 12″ PowerBook G4 is the first PowerBook in years without a PC Card slot. This time the system will accept it and continue installing from the USB device.Just two months after Apple boosted the 15.2″ PowerBook to 1 GHz, they surprised a lot of people by rolling out both the largest and the smallest PowerBooks ever, including the first 12″ PowerBook G4. You'll at some point be asked to insert the 2nd disc - those you may prepare the same as a Tiger installation: make a Leopard disc, and overwrite the 3rd partition (the Apple_HFS one that occupies the most space) with the Apple_HFS partition of the CD2 of the pre 10.4 OS you're installing.

#Debian macbook g4 install

You'll install as per usual, pressing alt (both of them in case of the cube) at bootup, selecting the CD, installing. To install 10.3 / 10.2 / 10.1 / 10.0, burn the CD1 image onto a disk, which you will have to be reading through the on-board IDE cable (connecting a USB cd-rom doesn't cut it, not USB allowed !). On my end, it looks like this:įor those wanting to install 10.3 or lower Unfortunately, I haven't found any way to get those to boot off of a USB device (not initially though). Through this method, I got it to show, and managed to install Tiger alongside Leopard xD.

#Debian macbook g4 driver

This will leave you with a stick having the ATAPI driver from the Leopard DVD disc, but the OS image of the Tiger disc. With dd, copy over the Apple_HFS (disk3s3 or diskNs3) partition OVER the Apple_HFS (~7GB) on the stick. Mount the OSX 10.4 Tiger image it should look something like this: Proceed with creating a Leopard 10.5 stick as in steps 1-4 The workaround is the following: prepare a 10.5 Leopard USB stick, and overwrite the Apple_HFS partition with the Apple_HFS partition from the 10.4 Tiger disk: This unfortunately seems to be incompatible with steps 1-6.

#Debian macbook g4 mac os x

You'll get a very primitive version of the present day Boot Selection screen, WHICH ONLY WORKS WITH A MOUSE ! There you'll find the USB Stick and be able to boot from it, and install as if it were a very speedy and silent DVD drive :)įor those wishing to install Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, the ISO floating around for that seems to contain a very small Apple_Driver_ATAPI partition (disk2s2 in step 4), a few KB instead of half a GB. Plug this into your G5 Cube, and, at boot, press both ALT keys (theoretically one should work but with my wireless keyboard the both button approach works best) At the end, diskutil list should show something like this:

Depending on your stick, this might take upwards of a few hours (even with a badass USB3 one!).

Now we can copy over the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard ISO with dd: sudo dd if=// of=/ bs=32768 conv=notrunc,noerror,sync.

The deeply cleansed disk should appear like so ( diskutil list)

The entire process should look something like this: Now let's for the sake of it nuke the FAT32 partition: sudo pdisk L e /dev/rdisk2 d 2 w and exit CTRL+C.

diskutil list should bring something like this up:

I formatted my USB thumb drive in Disk Utility with Apple Partition Map and a MS-DOS (FAT) partition.

What worked for me on a Cube G4 was the following (based on Joshua's advice): The alias will be resetted to default at the next cold boot and thus you will have to repeat the procedure for every USB-boot. You can just choose a default kernel entry - *finnix in my case - and it will boot properly. on the ISO)ģ.) Quick and dirty workaround: overwrite the cd alias in OF with the path to your USB Key (copy the path from the ud alias): devalias cd Now boot with boot cd:2,\yabootĥ.) No problem anymore with hardcoded cd alias - it's now poiting to your USB Key. (the cd alias is hardcoded inside files like ofboot.b, nf. This ud alias maps to You can call yaboot with boot ud:2,\yaboot - but then the kernel will panic because it still searches his initrd + rootfs somewhere at cd:2,/. I used the finnix ppc rescue ISO, dumped with dd to the usb key.ġ.) OF creates the devalias ud for the usb key in the left port. On a Powerbook G4 A1138 (1,67 Ghz 15' late 2005) the above instructions didn't work out of the box.

This thread is old, but i want to add some information that may be useful: