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

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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:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>           
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >
> >   
> 


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