****Re: ****Re: ****Re: ****Re: ****Help installing Fedora 8 on iMac G3
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Mar 31 02:18:34 UTC 2008
I was hoping that it was still downloading the rest of the packages and
that you haven't interrupted because it should eventually finish.
Craig
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 12:15 +1100, Catherine Fitzgerald wrote:
> Yep. I'm just going to leave it for now and wait a few days before I try
> again. Thanks for all your help.
>
> Craig White wrote:
> > Might as well let it go as I would expect that their 24 window of
> > bandwidth limiting will expire.
> >
> > I'm also thinking that the same bandwidth limiting would occur if you
> > download the DVD - that is 3.9 Gb which I would assume to be larger than
> > the bandwidth required to do the install via http.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 07:11 +1100, Catherine Fitzgerald wrote:
> >
> >> lol... we are talking Telstra here, they are not known for being
> >> sympathetic.
> >>
> >> If it hasn't got any further tonight I will start looking at other
> >> installation options. Either a custom install without Openoffice (and
> >> install it later) or a varient on Tim's idea and somehow make my pc a
> >> repository, then just do some sort of network connection to it instead.
> >> I'm not quite sure how to go about that, but I'll figure it out eventually.
> >>
> >> Craig White wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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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