RHEL 4 PPC install problem

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 03:53 +0300, Juha Vierinen wrote:
> > Again, on the ISO image or the DVD itself?
> 
> On the ISO image. I just burned a new DVD and the md5sum is  using
> md5sum /dev/dvd is not correct, but I'm not sure if that is how you do
> a checksum for a DVD. Oh well. I'll try it anyway tomorrow. Why is it
> always that the software that you pay for never works :)
> 
> > Just where did you get this image?  As near as I can see, Red Hat
> > doesn't mention Apple or PowerPC anywhere in their docs for either RHEL3
> > or 4.  I don't have any PPC-based machines so I don't have access to
> > their download site for PPC (if any).  I also don't see any PPC-based
> > ISOs from CentOS, either.
> 
> I found it at the link I had in my previous e-mail. I also assumed,
> possibly falsely, that fedora ~ rhel. Because fedora worked, then
> there would be a working rhel.

Ah, well, Fedora is the "bleeding edge" of RHEL.  It's the "farm team".
Fedoraites are essentially guinea pigs.  If it gets stable for a period
of time, it becomes RHEL.  For example, RHEL4 is based on Fedora Core 3.

> https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/channels/downloads.pxt?cid=4042

Ok, I'll try that link and see if I end up with the same situation.

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