Greetings, I downloaded and burned the DVD iso for F12 from a fedora mirror http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/ppc/iso/ After I burned it, I dd'ed it into a temp file and compared the md5sum of the temp file against the md5sum of the downloaded file. Identical - so the burn was good.
I tried to boot it. At boot, The
boot:
prompt comes, and I just press enter.
I get a blank white screen and nothing else happens.
Hope someone can help me get it installed.
Cheers,
JD
2010/7/23 JD jd1008@gmail.com:
At boot, The
boot:
prompt comes, and I just press enter.
I get a blank white screen and nothing else happens.
Previously I would try the linux video=ofonly option at the prompt, but with the switchover to nouveau that no longer works
That said, F12 has about 4 months of life left in it without a definite replacement forthcoming - at this point you're probably better off with Ubuntu PPC.
On 07/23/2010 09:55 AM, Alex Kanavin wrote:
2010/7/23 JDjd1008@gmail.com:
At boot, The
boot:
prompt comes, and I just press enter.
I get a blank white screen and nothing else happens.
Previously I would try the linux video=ofonly option at the prompt, but with the switchover to nouveau that no longer works
That said, F12 has about 4 months of life left in it without a definite replacement forthcoming - at this point you're probably better off with Ubuntu PPC.
I just downloaded ubuntu 10.4 cd iso for ppc. I was hoping to locate the full dvd iso, but have not found it.
One important reason I need to use a ppc linux is because I am finding the os-x disk utility is not providing me with a way to resize the root partition WITOUT destroying the data on the root partition. I read many blogs which said that many linux distros have parted which can do this. It is built-in to the cd or dvd iso image, so one burn it, boot it, enter into rescue mode (which will not find any linux to mount) and get a shell in which one can use the parted to resize the os-x partition.
Cheers,
JD
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