Usefull links:
http://philobsd.free.fr/Debian/branden.html http://www.hadess.net/files/ppc/ibook/iBookDV-install.txt http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/install http://www.gentoo.org/doc/fr/gentoo-ppc-faq.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-faq.xml http://frlinux.net/?section=portables&article=151 http://www.linux-france.org/macintosh/clavier_rpm3.html http://wiki.twolife.org/wiki/iBook_G4
Repartition disk
- Boot from Mac OS X installation disk. Restart and press "C" when hearing the chimes tune to achieve this.
- Install -> Disk utils
- Create a GNU/Linux partition (any partition type, UNIX is fine) first, then a Mac OS X UFS+ partition at the end of the disk.
Install Mac OS/X
- No need to reboot, just stay in Mac OS X installer
- Unselect most software except BSD subsystem and fonts.
- Install
Install Debian GNU/Linux
- Boot from Debian GNU/Linux Etch CD1 for PowerPC. Restart and press "C" when hearing the chimes tune to achieve this.
- Start installation, stop when asked for partitionning
- Destroy de UNIX placeholder partition
- Create 3 partitions, that is:
- a newworld boot partition (~10Mb is fine)
- a swap partition (twice as much as your RAM)
- an ext3 partition for /
On my system, it looked like this:
hda1 32kb Apple hda2 8.9Mb HFS+ eXternal_boot hda3 10Mb Yaboot start hda4 1,5Mb SWAP hda6 22,6Gb Debian GNU/Linux / hda5 5,6Gb HFS+ Mac OS/X
- Continue installation
- Reboot, a boot menu is automatically installed by Debian