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

[Catherine Fitzgerald <catfitz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
>
>