RHEL 4 PPC install problem

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 09:41 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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.

I've downloaded it and burned a DVD.  I'll try it when I get home
tonight as my only available PPC is a Mac Mini at home.

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