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

[Catherine Fitzgerald]

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:
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>>>>>> Ok, shall do that before trying to write another CD
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Craig White wrote:
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>>>>>>> On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 15:09 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>> ----
>>>>>>>> #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)?
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>>>>>>> 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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