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    From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Johannes Brakensiek on Fri Apr 16 14:00:01 2021
    Hi!

    On 4/16/21 1:38 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
    ppc64 should install fine on PowerMac G5 now.

    hooray! It works - smoothly! Very great! 🎉

    OK, good. It was an obvious oversight when building the image and had nothing to do with the changes I made to the various d-i packages itself.

    Really nice. To say it with words like Steve: It’s the best system that was ever made for a PowerMac G5!

    So, thank you for your efforts.

    You're welcome.

    From a user’s perspective now I only had one wish left, Adrian: Do you think it would be
    possible to generate a blessed iso/install image? If I could boot that image using the
    regular „option key boot disk view“ of a Mac, it would be very appealing regarding user
    experience. I’d even say UX would be *very good* then.

    But the image is blessed in HFS vocabulary. If you insert such a CD and press the <Option>
    key during boot, the CD will be selectable during boot.

    Adrian

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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Johannes Brakensiek on Fri Apr 16 14:40:01 2021
    On 4/16/21 1:57 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:

    On 16 Apr 2021, at 13:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

    But the image is blessed in HFS vocabulary. If you insert such a CD and press the <Option>
    key during boot, the CD will be selectable during boot.

    Ok, good to know. Then I suppose the Mac’s firmware just won’t detect it if it’s copied to a USB stick?

    It could be that the blessing gets lost when putting it onto a USB disk.

    I verified that when burnt to a CD, the image will show up in <Option> menu with
    an icon (which we can switch to a Debian swirl maybe later). But I don't know about
    OpenFirmware at the moment to know how to reproduce this behavior with a USB stick.

    Adrian

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