Yep. I'm just going to leave it for now and wait a few days before I try
again. Thanks for all your help.
Craig White wrote:
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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