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Re: Lubuntu PPC Image

 

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


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