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

[Catherine Fitzgerald]

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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