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

[Catherine Fitzgerald]

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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