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When i installed via alternate - the iso never ever worked on my PB G4
17"! - i had exactly the same phenomenon you describe at 4). But it
finally installed too . . .

Just a question: How could i find out the bit depth of my machine (is
it = video ram; 64mb = 64 bit??? Sorry for the dumb question ;) ).

TIA

PS. I did some "parallel attempts":
Installed Mint-PPC 11, which uses the debian net installer. Worked
fine (but is kernel3.2 based!).
Changed the bit depth in the yaboot.con from '-32' to '-24' and got
the recursive fault crash.

2012/10/28 Greg Faith <gregfaith@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Just for the record and not having tested anything for about a week. I
> decided to try the ppc netboot install and of course selected the
> Lubuntu enviroment.
>
> 1) Used a USB drive and created the iso on the USB with the dd command.
> 2) Got the USB booted with boot usb0/@1:2,\\yaboot
> 3) At the yaboot boot: install video=radeonfb:1024x768-32@60
> 4) Came up in really strange green-blue screen but works
> 5) Made the approx hour+ install ethernet connected
>
> I figured I would need more kernel commands to get my PB G4 booted
> from the partition and I am testing those right now.
>
> Since ojodan made the recommendation to also include snd-powermac blacklisting
> this line of junk works.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1066435
>
> Linux video=radeonfb:1024x768-32@60 snd-powermac.blacklist=yes
>
> A bit more than a new user might want to tackle, but we at least know
> with those kernel commands on my PB G4 will boot into a usable
> environment.  At this time I have used it to boot into partitions that
> were installed from the alternate and netboot powerpc isos.
>
> I do wish we had got the quantal powerpc netboot tested during the
> cycle, but it just takes to long when you are under the gun to get the
> other spins tested.
>
> Time to eat ...
> Greg nm_geo