FC3 PPC development tree / installing FC3 on B&W PowerMacG3

[Michael A. Peters]

On 11/25/2004 04:26:57 AM, mcwimpy at gmx.at wrote:
> Hello everybody!
> 
> I promised u to send u my test report for the PowerMacG3.
> unfortunately i
> could do nothing the whole week, because i have to download a  
> boot.iso
> and
> somehow there is no! I look every day 2 times at this
> sites
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ppc/images/mac/
> http://ftp.uni-koeln.de//mirrors/fedora/core/development/ppc/images/mac/
> 
> and hope this changes. What's the problem? Can i help somehow? When
> can i
> download a CD boot image. Or how can i make a bootable DVD?

I think you have to boot from a boot.iso (they are at the duke mirror  
for FC2 and FC3T2) and either ftp or nfs install.

Please note that the boot.iso doesn't support network on all hardware,  
such as my first gen iMac.

If the boot.iso fails to bring up your network, you aren't without  
possibilities - I had to install a bare bones YDL 3.0, remove as many  
rpm's as I could (and some more to resolve conflicts), manually update  
glibc and and a couple of other things that had epoch or version issues  
with FC versions, install Fedora release and Fedora yum, and then  
update from there - all without rebooting. The FC2 kernel did not  
properly boot my iMac - well it booted, but keyboard and network were  
broken. FC3T2 kernel would allow my keyboard to work but would not  
bring up my network.

Hint - after getting to FC3T2 but still booted from YDL kernel, mirror  
the FC3T3 rpm packages and the groups xml file, use the createrepo rpm  
from x86 FC3 (it's noarch) to create new repodata - and install yum  
from x86 FC3 (it's noarch)

Then point yum to the ppc FC3T2 tree on the HD and then you can do "yum  
grouplist" to see available groups of software and "yum groupinstall"  
to install entire groups of software. Necessary since going from YDL  
3.0 to FC3T2 involves a very minimal YDL install.

I never got networking on my iMac to work, and I gave up rather quickly  
- the newer kernels from rawhide wanted other things updated. Not worth  
the hassle for me since I would have to burn crap to CD to get it to  
the iMac. So hopefully a future PPC fedora tree with a boot.iso that  
boots my iMac will emerge. I may just junk the iMac though and buy an  
eMac - they are cheap and a lot faster.