Lubuntu 14 && U-MATE 15 installer issues [PPC]

[Fritz Hudnut]

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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