Can't install Adelie linux from DVD

[Botkos11]

Hi! I own a G4 sawtooth and i tried to install the adelie linux beta6 and i froze in the grub menu and my mac rebooted. I booted from dvd.
My harver is rare because there's a 1.2ghz FastMac upgrade card.
Is my cpu is the problem or what?

 

[Doq]

beta6 install media has several known issues.

Try using the beta5 install media-- it will still install beta6 nonetheless.

Index of /adelie/1.0-beta5/iso/

 

[Botkos11]

Thank you! I will try.

 

[Botkos11]

 

[Botkos11]

I remember i tried this last year and yeah its a kernel panic what can i do is this trash?

 

[wnlewis]

I have two sawtooth G4's. They are good computers, but a bit "twitchy".

When you boot from a DVD, it may or may not work. Even holding down the option key is no guarantee. My two computers just ignore the key and go on with a standard boot if they can.

The keyboard I use is a USB keyboard compatible in all regards with the G4's.

The processor upgrade may indeed throw a curve into things. You may have to pull the processor upgrade, put in the original processor, have only the minimum of USB items connected, have a GPU that was designed to go in the Sawtooth in it, and see if you can get it to do right.

Have an actual hard disk installed; not an SSD.

Try to have matched RAM and either Apple or a very reputable brand.

My main G4 was also upgraded to New World status. That may cause a problem.

Also, there are two motherboards available for the Sawtooth G4. The second version is required if you want to use dual processors. You might have to go back to the original motherboard, if you have upgraded.

Also remove any other "add on's" you may have installed. I put a serial port into the location where the original modem went.

Make the computer as "stock as possible" and slowly start to try the Linux install, doing only one change at a time after you have a successful installation.

 

[Alubook133]

I started a thread a couple of weeks ago, tried Beta 6 (on a 12" Alubook 1.33GHz) but couldn't even get to the DE with the live DVD. Then tried Beta 5, that one did show the XCE desktop with the Live DVD - however then failed miserably at installing it (on SSD) with a flurry of error messages/kernel panic during boot up.

See if you can find anything of interest in that thread, though I kinda' doubt it (not the same machine, unsuccessful).

 

[NewbiePPC]

Recently I just use fienix, it has great software precompiled in its repositories, it's debian based so you can get tons of software and with little work you get a working ppc linux experience (mostly to get the first upgrade that solves lightdm issues in my powerbook 15 fw and MDD G4 both with ATI Radeon 9600), it's true that it doesn't update frequently but you get recent web browser versions of sealion and arcticfox (I don't know what it's the web browser experience in adelie, in fienix it's pretty good). It's not the answer that you want but give it a try. It has no live enviroment, so you have to install it and go through to get your graphics card to work, from there it's simple to get software using the repositories or manually .deb

 

[Botkos11]

Thank you. I burnt a debian sid net install to dvd. Today i'll get a network cable and i'll try the debian.

 

[Botkos11]

Recently I just use fienix, it has great software precompiled in its repositories, it's debian based so you can get tons of software and with little work you get a working ppc linux experience (mostly to get the first upgrade that solves lightdm issues in my powerbook 15 fw and MDD G4 both with ATI Radeon 9600), it's true that it doesn't update frequently but you get recent web browser versions of sealion and arcticfox (I don't know what it's the web browser experience in adelie, in fienix it's pretty good). It's not the answer that you want but give it a try. It has no live enviroment, so you have to install it and go through to get your graphics card to work, from there it's simple to get software using the repositories or manually .deb

i will try this. Thank you

 

[penelope_bk]

Sounds like the 1.2GHz FastMac upgrade card is causing some compatibility issues with Adelie Linux beta6. Hardware upgrades can mess with Linux, especially older or non-standard CPUs. You might wanna try a different Linux distro or find a version of Adelie that works better with your setup.

 

[Botkos11]

So i tried the debian sid cant install the grub and the older debian 10 intructions are not working.
So i tried the fienix and it stuck in this:

 

[NewbiePPC]

I'll be useful to know what graphic card do you have, for now make sure that the installer it's from DVD-R or DVD+R, if it's try:

install video=offonly

 

[Botkos11]

Ati Radeon 9200