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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2013-04-24 10:36, Lars Noodén wrote:
> On 4/23/13 1:15 PM, Ho Wan Chan wrote:
>> Sorry we are currently respinning. The PowerPC Kubuntu image should appear
>> soon.
>>
>> Thank you all for helping us test!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
>> Kubuntu member
> 
> Thanks for getting the respin up there.  I do hope there will be a PPC
> Kubuntu for 13.04
> 
> I went through the tests this morning and could not get the graphical
> installer to run to completion.  It would just fail without warning or
> error messages at various intervals, I tried several reboots and within
> those several times each with the installer.  Each time it just quit
> quietly.  On the Live session, rekonq wouldn't run nor could the system
> sucessfully install the needed debugging tools to file a report on that.
> 
> If there's another respin I might be able to try later tonight, or
> definitely tomorrow.
> 
> Maybe it works on different hardware.
> 
> Regards,
> /Lars
> 
> 
How much RAM is there? My experience tells me that the alternate
installer works better when there is less than 768 MB RAM (but this is
with the i386 version, not PPC). The symptoms with the desktop version
(graphical installer) are the same as you describe.