****Re: ****Re: ****Re: ****Help installing Fedora 8 on iMac G3

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Mar 30 19:35:11 UTC 2008


I would call them and beg for a 24 hour window of 'unlimited' to
accomplish the task at hand...you *might* get someone sympathetic to
your plight.

Craig

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 06:15 +1100, Catherine Fitzgerald wrote:
> Some progress yes, but at the moment its taking forever (and I mean 
> forever - over 12hrs now) to install the openoffice core. I think my ISP 
> has throttled my download speed to almost nothing (the price of cheap 
> unlimitted broadband is that when Telstra slows it down once you hit a 
> certain amount, they really slow it down). The progress report 
> (ctrl-alt-F3) has no errors, and the computer is still ticking away and 
> talking to my modem.  Basically, the install is at 65%, with another 200 
> odd packages to install, and I'm hoping it's just a matter of being 
> extremely patient and hoping that when I get home from work tonight it 
> will have got a bit further.
> 
> Oh, and I am using the text mode install
> 
> Craig White wrote:
> > Any progress?
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 09:26 +1100, Catherine Fitzgerald wrote:
> >   
> >> Ok, shall do that before trying to write another CD
> >>
> >> Craig White wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 15:09 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> ----
> >>>> #1 - burn the CD at the slowest speed possible. When you burn a CD on a
> >>>> system with a high speed CD writer and then try to use that CD on an
> >>>> older, slower CD drive, you will have file errors.
> >>>>
> >>>> #2 - Your step 3 should have worked. Were you in GUI or text mode when
> >>>> going through the installation steps (anaconda)?
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> ----
> >>> I should add that I have installed Fedora 7 on an iMac G3 and Fedora 8
> >>> on a G4 so I truly believe that it should work though I have to confess
> >>> that I have my own local repositories and only use the ppc/boot.iso to
> >>> get the first stage boot and then finish booting and run the installer
> >>> and get the packages from my local repo.
> >>>
> >>> Suggest that you boot the rescue cd again and at the prompt 'boot'
> >>>
> >>> type 'linux askmethod'
> >>>
> >>> and use...
> >>>
> >>> http protocol
> >>> http server: ringtail.its.monash.edu.au
> >>> path:        /pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/ppc/os/
> >>>
> >>> and try installing...if this hangs, don't quit but get back to me and
> >>> tell me if you are running in GUI mode or text mode
> >>>
> >>> Craig
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >
> >   
> 




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