Folks: Just a little follow-up on the installer issue(s) . . . tried to watch the recent Hangouts on the installer on the world Ubuntu meeting, but didn't seem to be on point and at that time I hadn't tried to run an install. Over the weekend I tried to install two flavors from desktop image burned to DVD on my iBook G4 . . . first it was Lubuntu 14.04 LTS that I had burned and I believe I installed and from memory downloaded in February.
I followed my usual style of selecting "something else" from the choice as I run a dual boot, set up a 10 MB "new world boot" partition, 12 GB formatted "ext4" . . . and 2x RAM at 1380MB for swap . . . ran through the usual ID & password stuff . . . and the installer opened and started with "saving files xxx" . . . . 15 minutes later it was "still doing that" which ordinarily the install should be finishing or almost. Checked GParted, boot partition showed 9MB installed, and ext4 showed 322MB . . . ???? Deleted the partitions and tried again . . . same thing . . . . So I assumed that somehow the Lubuntu installer issues that have been discussed here had "migrated" into my burned DVD by magic . . . so I went on to try for a Ubuntu-MATE 15 iso . . . many downloads later I had a correct checksum number and burned it to DVD. The next day, yesterday I went for the install, this time I noticed that when I set up the Newworld boot it was flagged as "/" . . . and I also flagged the ext4 partition as "/" as I usual do for prior successful installs . . . running the install brought the same "saving copies" . . . with the same 9MB in newworld and 322MB showing as "used" . . . sensing a pattern I tried to delete the newworld partition, but, it would not run w/o it. Then I tried to remove the "/" from the neworld, also not accepted . . . same thing when I tried to remove the "/" from the ext 4 partition. So, I gave up on trying to use "something else" and I deleted all the partitions to "free space" and ran it as "install alongside OSX" . . . and it went through, Yaboot was installed . . . . However, on reboot it went to a black screen, my radeon boot params were not carried over to the install . . . so I tried to set up an Xorg.conf and at same time add the boot params to the Yaboot.conf file . . . and botched the deal by forgetting (I believe) to run "sudo ybin" . . . and on reboot it went to the verbose log . . . ending with "p link is down" and it froze there. I tried to boot a Super Grub2 CD but Yaboot would not boot it . . . so, problems with install, work around that "fixed it," and then I screwed it up . . . seems par for the course for the iBook lately . . . . Clearly there are "issues" with the "something else" way of installing with possibly the double flag for "/" being involved? If there is a bug report for this issue, happy to add my name to it. Might have time in a few days to try to run the installer over my install and see if it "dpkg" the problem . . . ah, I also tried to get to a TTY after my Xorg & Yaboot conf fiasco . . . no dice would not open a TTY shell . . . . F/e.e.p.
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