@repairedCheese Great find! I'll add that to the Wiki at the first chance I get. It will replace the Acquire::Check-Valid-Until "false"; method.
See... everybody contributes.
See... everybody contributes.
Well, that didn't work. It eventually stopped booting. Which is weird, because it was booting properly at first, but soon needed boot: old, and on top of all of that, my Powermac7,3 never had sound. It definitely thought it did, but I couldn't get it to actually produce sound. Which is weird, because at least Lubuntu had sound. You'd think Debian would too.And, while I was at it, I found some instructions on how to remove a new kernel if you got it installed. It needs a little bit of tweaking for our specific kernel versions, but I did get the new 5.4 kernel installed when I updated, and I did also use this to get it off. So now I not longer need to boot with the "old" command at boot: line.
Annoyingly, it means that "apt-mark hold linux-image-4.15.0-2-powerpc64" didn't work for me, as it said I had already done it once I tried it again, but it looks like I have a stable working Debian 10 ppc system running quite nicely.
I have never tried Void, seems interesting. It could also be an option, void-mintppc...
It's actually included the official live disks. I haven't tried a single Lubuntu live disk that didn't have a copy installed. And better yet, it handles stuff like resizing Journaled HFS+ just fine. I've had no problems using it, and I've resized quite a few partitions without a single failure.....or just boot any of the Ubuntu flavored live dvds. I'm pretty certain gparted comes preinstalled, and if not the overlay filesystem has plenty of room to temp install it on the live session.
I'm pretty sure I included it in lubuntu 16 remix.
Where do I find that PowerPC version? I wasn't quite sure where to look. Thanks.@wnlewis Debian Sid has a version of gparted compiled for PowerPC. I've used it many times in the past, as have others. All you need to do to get it is run sudo apt install gparted.