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
>>
>>
>>