I'm trying to install MintPPC 9.3 from a 1gb usb stick on an iBook G4. I have slight familiarity with Unix and Linux environments, but less so with Mac quirks.

I have tried a lot. I will post some of the links I have been considering for guidance, as well as some general questions. However, as of this moment, I can insert my flash drive, get to the open firmware prompt, and execute:

boot usb1@disk1:2,\\yaboot

which brings up a new screen that briefly shows some information about loading XCOFF then goes to a all grey screen with a central 'do not enter' type logo. What the does this mean?
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My suspicion is that I've missed something about creating a blessed partition.

I don't have a newer mac at my disposal this moment, so i don't have mac-fdisk (it seems) to create the bootstrap partition, although I have succeeded in using diskutil+fdisk to make an hfs partition with boot sector.

I've converted the mini.iso to .img using the hdiutil. Does this image have yaboot on it, or do I have to install that separately?

I've tried these instructions:

http://mintppc.org/content/installation-mintppc-92#1

as well as played with:

http://mac.linux.be/content/copying-files-flexible-way

Thanks for any guidance.

Are you still working on this? I missed your post, and apparently so did others who could help.

SKi