Sure, I could've just apt-upgrade'd to the newest ubuntu-release and be done with it - but that would've been too easy. Really, the ubuntu-installer is a must-have-experience: booting a LiveCD, clicking around like you just don't care ('cause you (almost) cannot break stuff) and then, when you realize that you can watch movies from a network share (yes, it'll install missing (read: ugly) codecs too) you can press PAUSE click on the INSTALL button on your desktop, answer a few question an continue watching this por^Wmovie again. When the movie is over, your installation is too :) But I wouldn't write a blogentry when all has been blue skies, now would I? No, booting the 7.10 bootcd did not work at all first. I had to choose "live-powerpc-nosplash", otherwise the display would just flicker (or: oscillating between black/grey). Since I'm running MacOS X on this same iBook and ext2fsx to access ext2/3 partitions from OS X, it'd be a good idea to install ubuntu-7.10 on ext3, not some other (better?) filesystem. OK, lesson learned, but too late. When installing again (while watching another movie, hehe), I thought it'd nice if the installer could grab packages from a local cache instead of fetching them all by himself (again). But the local cache was already wiped :( This time I've just setup Squid acting as a transparent proxy to cache package files: squid.conf: http_port 10.0.0.1:3128 transparent maximum_object_size 128 MB minimum_object_size 512 KB cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid3 1500 16 256 Netfilter: iptables -A PREROUTING -s $LAN -d ! $LAN -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 \ -j DNAT --to-destination 10.0.0.1:3128 Instead of using Squid, you could use apt-cacher too. But again: too easy :)