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["Walter Lapchynski" <carsrcoffins23@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was SO excited to see Lubuntu on Canonical with an Ocelot version. My 12" PowerBook G4 has been waiting forever for this.

Unfortunately, installation isn't going well. Desktop installer needed a bunch of upgrades (including to pygobject which caused an error) and then failed because of a supposedly fixed error in choose-mirror where "mirror" is the default rather than "ports.ubuntu.com." 

This error IS fixed in x86 Ocelot but not in PPC. Standard Ubuntu PPC Ocelot has the same issue, so this is not just Lubuntu.

I have tried to run Ubiquity without the network connection and yet still the installer attempts to download packages.

I tried the alternate install CD and it boots fine, but when it comes to detecting the cdrom, it fails. The BusyBox shell fails to reveal mention of the cdrom anywhere: syslog, dmesg, /proc, /dev, etc. I tried to try again many times over to no avail.

Interestingly, the latest Debian Squeeze PPC small CD, which I believe has the same installer, has no problems detecting the cdrom.

So I don't know where to go next but I'm hoping that maybe the choose-mirror fix can be applied to the PPC version or that perhaps there may be some config file (like sources.list but for choose-mirror) I could manually edit. Ideas?