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MR2Di4 · Joined:Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:41 am Posts:1

Up and running w/ Mint 9.3 on an aging G4 iMac "lampshade" gifted to me by a former teacher. Really the only thing I could run after trying Ubuntu 11.10, 10.10, 10.04, and even Mint PPC 11 would not complete installation @ the Software Installation stage and after three failed attempts I fell back to 9.3. Would like to try 11 again but not before finding a way to clone my drive so I can go back to 9.3 without a reinstall.

MR2Di4 8-)

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2742

Yeah, I know someone else having problems with the iLamp and MintPPC 11 too, right este el paz ? I only I could get such a machine myself, I could be able to understand the problems.

If you ever reinstall MintPPC 11, can you post the complete log file which resides in /var/log/syslog ? Just get to a shell and try to get that file out somehow. Then we have a clue what's going on with this weird fault @ software installation stage. My guess is that you need to choose another Debian server as there lies the culprit of the problem to my honest opinion.

From the installation instructions:

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Be careful which Debian mirror you chose. Some mirrors fail to install all the required software. In the USA the MSU mirror works well and In The Netherlands, ftp.nl.debian.org has it all. You will have to find this out for yourself in other countries.