The released file xubuntu-9.10-desktop-powerpc+ps3.iso is greather than 700MiB and doesn't fit in a normal CD-R for some old PowerPC machines. Then is needed to rebuild an ISO image that fits in 700MiB CD-R to allow booting and(or installing directly the Karmic version in iMac G3, for example.
- The scenario is a Xubuntu 9.04 PPC upgraded to 9.10 version, and UCK installed as described here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/uck/+bug/516231
- Given disk space by a link to external drive:
sudo ln -s /media/dosi233g/uck-tmp/ /home/administracio/tmp
administracio@imac:~$ env LANGUAGE=en df -hT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 ext3 4,8G 2,9G 1,8G 62% /
udev tmpfs 251M 228K 250M 1% /dev
none tmpfs 251M 228K 250M 1% /dev/shm
none tmpfs 251M 96K 251M 1% /var/run
none tmpfs 251M 0 251M 0% /var/lock
none tmpfs 251M 0 251M 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/hda5 hfsplus 7,0G 1,6G 5,5G 23% /tmp/hda5
/dev/sda1 ext3 230G 71G 147G 33% /media/dosi233g
administracio@imac:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 500 487 12 0 114 218
-/+ buffers/cache: 153 346
Swap: 281 22 259
administracio@imac:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic
administracio@imac:~$ uname -a
Linux imac 2.6.31-14-powerpc #48-Ubuntu Fri Oct 16 14:11:44 UTC 2009 ppc GNU/Linux
- Selected only "en" language in all questions, "no" customize packages and "yes" remove MSWindows files.
could you please try with 2.2 or better 2.3.4? please let me know