RHEL 4 PPC install problem

[Juha Vierinen]

The md5sum was correct. Now that I tried mounting the image with
linux, it seems ok. It was just OS X that complained about it.

mount -o loop -t iso9660 RHEL4-RHAPS2-ppc.iso redhell

Now I am a bit stumped. Why would the free Fedora 4 and 5 boot on
powermac, but the commercial version not? Is support for powermac
somehow intentionally dropped from RHEL4 PPC?

juha

On 6/27/06, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 01:50 +0300, Juha Vierinen wrote:
> > I am hoping to install Red Hat Application Server v. 2 (AS v. 4 for
> > ppc) on a apple powermac dual ppc970 2.0GHz. The checksum for the DVD
> > is valid, but I cannot get it to boot. The iso doesn't even seem to be
> > valid, atleast I cannot mount it. Here is the link:
> >
> > https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/channels/downloads.pxt?cid=4042
> >
> > I have been able to install Fedora Code 5 on the machine. Even after
> > having to manually reconfigure the bootloader, I was pleasently
> > surprised of how well it seemed to work, after fighting with some
> > other PPC distros. But this isn't enough yet. I would like to get
> > RHEL4 working, because it is required by XL Fortran 10.1. (I have also
> > been able to install XL Fortran on fedora, but it is not fully
> > functional.)
> >
> > Can anybody tell me if there even exists a PPC RHEL4, and what are the
> > chances of getting it running on a powermac. On the other hand, if
> > somebody knows how to get XL Fortran 10.1 running smoothly on eg.
> > Fedora, I will just consider the price I paid for   RHEL as a
> > contribution to Linux devolopment...
>
> When you say the "checksum for the DVD is valid", do you really mean the
> MD5SUM for the DVD .iso image is valid?  Assuming that's correct, did
> you burn the AS4 DVD in the same manner as you burned the FC5 DVD?  If
> you're unsure, try mounting the AS4 DVD in a Linux machine and see if
> you see a bunch of files on it or just one.  If you see just one, you
> didn't burn the DVD correctly.  On a Linux box, the best way to burn
> the DVD is:
>
>         # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=/path/to/dvd-image.iso
>
> as the root user, of course.
>
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