At 6:45 PM -0700 9/16/05, Adam Boettiger wrote: >I am a linux newbie. Just bought Red Hat Fedora 4 Unleashed book with DVD >disk yesterday and am having problems with doing a dual-boot install into my >Mac PowerBook G4 laptop. > >I have an 80G drive, I've followed the instructions in the book, burned the >iso image to a CD and then booted to CD. I just need some basic help. Once I >can get the installer started I should be okay. A year ago I did an install >of Fedora by myself so dunno why I am having any problems. > >I know you're supposed to install OS X first, so have wiped the drive and >done a clean install of OS X. I understand that the install process of >Fedora has a partioning section to it, so have not partitioned my drive yet. > >I know it's Friday, but does anyone have a few minutes to just get me >started off-list via IM or email? The problem seems to be that my drive is >not reading the DVD or CD when booted to. I have no idea why. It reads and >boots to other CDs fine. Did you burn a ppc version of FC4 (right), or the more common i386 version (wrong)? Does the CD show a bunch of files and folders (right), or only a single .iso file (wrong). I don't use MOSX, so I can't be more specific. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
