Installing Ubuntu 5.10/7.04 on PowerMac G4 (Quick Silver - 867MHz)

[Radim]

Hi everyone,

I have the following problem and I would be grateful for any of your help. I have a PowerMac G4 (Quick Silver), 867 MHz.

I was trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on it, but I have not succeeded - always stop at a white screen even though I was using video=ofonly. Therefore, I tried an older version 5.10 which I could install without any problem.

The installation at 5.10 version is text based so I thought I should try installing Ubuntu 7.04 using alternative installation CD.

I did that. I have been trying to install it using parameters expert-powerpc, install-powerpc both with and without video=ofonly parameters. However, the installation always freezes at some point. Once when detecting disks, once when retrieving e2fsprogs-udeb....

Any idea how to successfully install Ubuntu on this machine?

[Radim]

bump...

[stmiller]

Hm, still no luck? There are a few people on this board running Feisty on that machine so hopefully they can chime in. The installer is crapping out it sounds like. You can install Edgy then upgrade to Feisty fairly easily, for a possibility:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

[Radim]

Unfortunately still no luck. I have tried different distributions such as Yellow Dog, Fedora, openSuse. The only distribution I was able to sucessfuly instal was Ubuntu 5.10. I will try the upggrade from 5.10 to 7.04 using the installation CD.

[pxwpxw]

It might be worth a look at gutsy also, there appears to be better handling than feisty for eaarlier mac versions. Although this link relates to OldWorld scsi, there might also be something in it for early PowerMac G4.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3031481&postcount=20