Congratulations, you've successfully booted your accursed PowerPC Mac from a USB drive! The installation process is the same from here on out as if you were booting from an official Mac OS X Install DVD. boot You should see a little spinner, then some white-on-grey text, and finally the Apple logo. dir and make sure the entry that contains 'BootX' also contains 'tbxi' (if it doesn't, panic!)
Run dev / ls and look for the entry with at the end of it (in my case Run devalias and look for the entry with the text you found in Part3Step2 at the end of it (in my case 'usb0'). Drag and drop it under the drive names in the Disk Utility app. Step 3 : Now open a Finder window and locate your DMG file. Insert the USB drive and watch as it appears on that list. Step 2 : On the left, you'll see all the available drives. Boot your PowerPC-based Mac into OpenFirmware (power it down and hold Command + Option + O + F while powering it back up) Step 1: Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility and click on it to launch the program. Part 3: Installing Mac OS X (okay kids, this is where it gets complicated - mostly copy/pasted from here follow that if this doesn't work for some reason) All I know is that my macOS Catalina hackintosh did NOT work) Second old Mac that already boots Mac OS X Leopard (other versions may work, but are untested. USB drive (16GB or more in capacity 8GB might work, but come on, it's 2020) PowerPC-based Mac you want to install OS X on by using a USB drive. Choose where you want to save the disk image and what you want to name it. Disk Utility will create a digital clone of your system disk in the Apple disk image format (DMG) that will then be used to make the USB. 
After choosing a save location, leave the Image Format as Compressed and click Save to begin ripping the system disk to your hard drive. Since Windows doesn't offer native support. Convert DMG to ISO and Make Bootable USB from ISO.
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