Actually I'd argue that the oldest ones are the LEAST likely to have DVDs. I remember when I got my PowerBook (one of the last of the PPCs) the SuperDrive (DVD rather than CD) was pretty exotic. I would say as a general rule DVDs are pretty uncommon across the Apple PPCs as a whole.
I'll also add that USB booting has only on occasion worked for me, again with the most support being for the newest machines. Regardless, OpenFirmware has a strange quirk of being inconsistent. Sometimes things work and sometimes things, inexplicably, don't. That being said, we need a CD-size image for the PPCs. On the subject of testing, the QA tracker is missing a download link to the latest desktop (the alternate is there), which is the appropriate size. This makes official testing impossible without all testers consistently using the same image. I know, preaching to the choir. I did grab the latest daily and the installation just plain failed, but haven't filed a bug for some circumstantial reasons-- it's coming. Also there are bugs relating to mirrors during install 756719, notification-daemon crashing 927040, and pcmanfm crashing during install 926980. There are plenty more where that came from that I didn't file because I just got too plain tired last night. Also a n00b, wxl On 02/05/2012 12:55 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > Hi, > > I must confess I'm struggling a bit here. As you know I'm still quite > new to 'official' testing, so I trust you will be gentle with me. > > On the lead up to the alpha2, the ppc iso's where always oversized. > This causes a problem for the majority of our people (all two of us - > soon to be three), that they can only boot from a CD and no other > option is possible. > > We had the alternate > on http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/206/builds which was > 'CD' sized. It now shows with a line through it. I cannot find any > entry for alternate builds of them (either of the Mac versions) > on http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/precise/alpha-2/ and the > dailies, once again, are oversized. > > Whilst this request is specifically for lubuntu, may I add that for > any flavour of the family supporting ppc Macs, that the ppc iso's once > over-sized cannot be tested except for the minority (from my > experience) who have an 'old' PPC Mac with a DVD drive (These were a > lot more money!). > > Hoping you can help. > > Regards, > > Phill. > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
