I retried with edgy ppc release. There was good improvement. The most serious problem, not detecting my boot partition was gone. However, the filesystem of my hfs+ partition (/dev/hda3) was still not recognized. Attaching /var/log/installer from my edgy installation.
** Attachment added: "Installer-logs from edgy" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4939160/installer-logs.tgz ** Also affects: zenity (upstream) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- [PPC install 2006-05-25] problems with hfs partitions during manual partitioning https://launchpad.net/bugs/46735 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs