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Old 05-15-2015, 04:30 PM   #1
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Missing packages on debian iBook G4 powerPC (no wireless drivers)


Hello, lately, I've been having an issue when my iBook G4 didn't recognise my Airport Extreme card during a netinstall of debian and ended up not installing basic packages like gedit, Libre Office, and synaptic. Also any ram I inserted was not recognized. Can anyone help me with the following problems:

No wireless card drivers
missing packages
ram not recognized

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Old 05-15-2015, 05:10 PM   #2
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Did you install from live-cd/usb?
Are You using unetbootin?
 
Old 05-15-2015, 09:51 PM   #3
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Did you install from live-cd/usb?
Are You using unetbootin?
No, just a plain install cd

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Old 05-15-2015, 09:58 PM   #4
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No, just a plain install cd
Not a net install cd how to.
But close for what you are trying to do.
Probably easier to do the net install over a land line though.
Then download and enable wireless then from there.

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=14684
 
Old 05-17-2015, 05:33 PM   #5
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even the SUDO command is missing
 
Old 05-17-2015, 08:04 PM   #6
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Debian doesn't setup sudo by default, you have to configure sudo from root or just su to root.
 
Old 05-18-2015, 02:47 AM   #7
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@OP: Your wireless issue is almost certainly because your card requires non-free firmware that is in violation of the Debian Free Software Guidelines and so is not supplied on the official ISO images.
https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware

If the card wasn't functional during the installation and you used a netinstall, your system will be very basic indeed and lacking most of the functionality that can be expected from a Debian system.

You could add the "non-free" & "contrib" components to the repository lines in /etc/apt/sources.list and download the non-free firmware (if you have a wired connection available) or you could install the .deb package for the firmware by downloading it on another computer & transferring the package over via USB stick (install using it using gdebi or `dpkg -i <name of .deb>`) and then install all the missing packages manually or you could simply install again using one of the unofficial ISO images that already include the non-free firmware your card requires:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/un...ding-firmware/

I don't know about your RAM issues though -- are you sure the chip is functional?

If you are using a 32-bit system, it will not recognise RAM above 4GiB anyway; you should install a 64-bit operating system if your machine can make use of it and RAM is not restricted (ie, more than 1-2GiB).

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