Can someone tell whats the usb called when using devalias iv been reading the installation guide but its not the same as mine. I just want to know whats the usb called when putting ur usb stick and using open firmware ..

can you make a few pictures of your screen when issuing

and

please?

Don't forget to have the USB stick in the USB port while doing this...I guess you could figure this out yourself...

ok look at this
http://i47.tinypic.com/2dvvmok.jpg .. Devalias

this is for dev / ls
http://i47.tinypic.com/2qcdv0m.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/am5ptz.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/4t8555.jpg

ok, in the dev / ls you will see

This is your USB stick with a bootable drive 1. Now look at devalias and you will see that this points to

If we translate this into the open firmware path to the bootable part of Debian, this becomes:

(disk 1, partition 2 on device usb-2a, or something like that)
So boot the stick with the following command:


Enjoy and good luck.

[quote="linuxopjemac"]ok, in the dev / ls you will see

This is your USB stick with a bootable drive 1. Now look at devalias and you will see that this points to

If we translate this into the open firmware path to the bootable part of Debian, this becomes:

(disk 1, partition 2 on device usb-2a, or something like that)
So boot the stick with the following command:


Enjoy and good luck.[/quote
boot usb-2a/disk@1:2,\\yaboot .... didnt work it said "cant open device or file " .. But i did see in dev / ls ..usb@1b/disk@1 and in devalias.. I dont know what im doing wrong

Maybe these machines can't boot from USB. I only got it to work on G3's...

Surely you want

boot usb1/disk:2,\\yaboot

I wrote the documentation here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#How_ ... B_drive.3F

I am about to update it with a different method (so that you don't have to use dd), if anybody is interested.

Finished updating the ubuntu usb guide tonight (except a few spelling mistakes I've just spotted).

If anybody is stil struggling with usb I'd like to hear from them.

The guide is pretty long, but it still doesn't go into minute detail, so a bit or reading the links is still expected. For example, it doesn't say how to identify the openfirmware path like linuxopjemac described above. This is because I'm pretty convinced most people wil use usb0 or usb1 (in the above usb-2a and usb1 should be the same). If you really do use something completely different then speak up!

Anyway, hope it helps someone on here.

is this for powerbook g4 ? i tried but it didnt work

It's for any machine. What of the guide did you try?

From your previous post:

usb1 has definitly got a disk attached to it.
usb2 is showing a keyboard and mouse attached to it - I'm not sure if that is a real port or just your ADB mouse and keyboard.

What is the output of

dir usb1/disk@1:2,\

This should list the files on the disk. How did you copy the ISO to your usb stick? I'm thinking this is your problem.

You could try

boot usb1/disk@1:2,\install\yaboot