Re: PowerPC Problem



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On Sep 12 2007, debian wrote:

Simon Royal wrote:
Hi

I am attempting to install Ubuntu 6 on my PowerBook Titanium 400Mhz
with 1GB of RAM.

I have a 60GB drive installed with the following partitions:

39GB - Tiger
03GB - OS9
08GB - Panther

I have 5GB of free space, of which I had split into two further
partitions a 4GB (for the system) and a 1GB (for the swap).

I boot from the CD and click the install icon on the desktop. I choose
to manually select partitions, set the "/" for the 4GB and the "/swap"
for the 1GB and I tell it to reformat these partitions. About 15% the
way through installation I get an error message 'No NewWorld boot
partition found'.

What am I doing wrong, can anyone help?

I tried this about a year ago on my PowerBook G3, dual booting with
Ubuntu/Tiger and it worked fine. Tiger was installed first and it
booted fine using LILO between the two. But my G4 is proving a little
troublesome.

Regards

Simon Royal
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please be a bit more specific on what version of ubuntu 6.xx your
talking about (theres a 6.06 and a 6.10).

furthermore, why ubuntu 6.xx? when they have ubuntu 7.04 released for
powerpc?

the powerpc iso: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/7.04/release/


--cj


Hi

Thanks for pointing out version 7. I thought Ubuntu had dropped PPC support
from 6 onwards.

Late last night I managed to get 6 installed. If I simply deleted the 4GB
and 1GB partitions and let the Ubunutu partition create new ones using all
available free space it worked.

Simon




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