Hi, I did some test installs with the CD for powerpc yesterday on a 250 Mhz iMac with 192mb RAM (and with the CD built on the 22nd of april.) Summary: it looks much better than before but still has some itchy bits. I did three installations, always selecting the workstation and standalone profiles together. The difference was the type of partitioning setup I choose. If I choose "all files in one partition", the installed system booted after the installation. If I choose a LVM setup, either the workstation profile or the "all files in one partition", the bootloader couldnt boot the kernel. Strangely in all three cases d-i claims at the end of the installation, that it couldnt install the bootloader. (But it was always there, it just didnt work in two cases :/ LVM works in Debian etch. (I havent confirmed etch final yet, but rc1 worked for sure.) So this is an debian-edu issue. Select mirror always failed, but AIUI Pere already fixed this in r32740. I'm not sure if this is the reason for the somewhat strange /e/a/sources.list I had on the installed system, I'll take another look once the fixed package is available. The installed kdm looks nice and sounds works too. The X resolution is too small, but this is also the case for a Debian etch install. After login a debconf note is shown, informing me about some debconf failures from debian-edu-config (due to not being able to find an ldap-server tjener, etc.). This looks bad on standalone install. Besides these minor issues I now have a debian-edu powerpc workstation. regards Holger
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