Lubuntu 14 && U-MATE 15 installer issues [PPC]

[Aere Greenway]

On 05/11/2015 09:09 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> I followed my usual style of selecting "something else" from the 
> choice as I run a dual boot, set up a 10 MB "new world boot" 
> partition, 12 GB formatted "ext4"  . . . and 2x RAM at 1380MB for swap 
> . . . ran through the usual ID & password stuff . . . and the 
> installer opened and started with "saving files xxx" . . . .  15 
> minutes later it was "still doing that" which ordinarily the install 
> should be finishing or almost. Checked GParted, boot partition showed 
> 9MB installed, and ext4 showed 322MB . . . ???? 
Fritz:

I always use the "Something Else" (manual partitioning) option, and it 
has (so far) always worked for me.

The thing I see in your e-mail snippet above that makes me wonder, is 
your "new world boot" partition.

One of the partitions that Linux looks-for, and creates if necessary, is:

/boot

Your "new world boot" partition would not be recognized as "/boot", so 
presumably it would create its own "/boot" partition under "/". But 
perhaps there are other things you did in the manual partitioning (such 
as where GRUB is installed) that could cause a conflict.

I recall that in installing Linux alongside Mac OS X (using manual 
partitioning), I needed to create a small partition (of a name the 
installer suggested) into-which the boot-loader (GRUB) is installed.

If you need to control what is in the /boot partition, then it is 
probably best to create the /boot partition before installing, and 
indicate for the install to use it.

I suspect that it must be named "/boot".  Keep in mind that there is no 
communication between the installer and the myriads of other system 
components.  Such components probably simply look for a partition named 
"/boot".

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere