Installing Fedora on a TiBook G4

Paul Nasrat pauln at truemesh.com
Sat Dec 25 18:00:26 UTC 2004


On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 07:00:54PM +0100, Robert Gruendler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've decided to give it a try with Fedora on my TiBook G4, but have some 
> problems with installation (probably quite stupid ones)

No, they're probably bugs, as documented this is still at test tree.
> 
> I'm trying to install it with the 4 isos provided, but after the installer 
> is finished with the 1st cd and requests the second one, i'm not able to 
> eject the cd, cause the eject button doesn't work yet...
> 
> Has anyone a solution for that?

Hmm, try switching to tty2 (Alt-F2) and see if the eject command works.  

> I've also a pc, maybe i can put the contents of the 4 cds there and 
> install it via network somehow.

If you put the isos - you can do an nfsiso install. Place the isos in one dir and export via nfs, use boot.iso to boot with linux askmethod.

Paul




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