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

[Todd Denniston]

Craig White wrote, On 04/02/2008 09:49 AM:
> Should work...it's a local disk install and the only issue is whether
> the installer will recognize the USB disk which I fully expect it to.
> You will probably have to expand the contents of the iso file into
> actual files on the stick unless you have some skills at loop mounting.
> 
> Craig
> 

Actually, no.
if you are using the normal anaconda leave it as an ISO on the USB disk.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435976

And I think Craig may have hit on a plan earlier, install just a base system, 
and then once the system is installed come back and install the other things 
you want using yum.
As far as I understand the F8 and F9 setups, the DVD (or it's iso) can be used 
as a yum repo, so later install can use what you have already downloaded.

> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 16:27 +1100, Catherine Fitzgerald wrote:
>> Do you think it would work if I downloaded the DVD to a USB stick? I 
>> have a 4G stick, it's just a question of whether or not the mac would 
>> recognise that it was there.
>>
>> Craig White wrote:
>>> Good luck...may be tough to find DVD image broken down for ppc. Too bad
>>> you're like 8,000 miles away because in my office, where I have all the
>>> repositories local, it takes less than an hour.
>>>
>>> Anyway, once you get it installed and if you struggle getting X going,
>>> let me know because I can help with iMac G3.
> 
> 


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