Installing Fedora Core 4 on a Apple Powerbook G4 1.6GHz

[Bryan Elliott]

Ben Steeves wrote:

>On 7/1/05, Bryan Elliott <redhat at zoinkz.com> wrote:
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>>Jonathan Hartje wrote:
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>>>All,
>>>   I'm trying to install FC4 on a new Apple Powerbook G4, 1.67 Ghz
>>>laptop. After anaconda tries to launch X11, the screen goes blank and
>>>seems to hand. Does anyone know how/if there is a text install kernel
>>>or something similar to work around the issue?
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>>I have the same problem but use linux 3 to boot to text mode. I was
>>wondering if you got this fixed?
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>I've never managed to get X working on my 1.67GHz G4.  I know at least
>one person got it working on a 1.5GHz, but that uses a different
>graphics adapter.
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>OTOH, Ubuntu 5.04 works fine.  I haven't had the time yet to figure
>out why one works and the other doesn't.
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Thanks for the reply I will give Ubuntu a try.