Someone on one of the Fedora lists posted this link : http://www.redhat.com/magazine/007may05/features/mac-mini/
which talks about installing Fedora on Apple hardware. The page above is written, bless it!, as something of an introduction for non-apple-people to the oddities of installing a familiar system on strange hardware -- which is very much my position, despite three years of YDL, when it comes to putting FC4 onto our G3 iBook. (It's my wife's machine, and I seldom use it.) There are certainly a couple of things it tells you to do that I don't believe I did, or did properly, in my spectacularly unsuccessful attempts this past weekend -- such as not holding down C while booting FC4 Install-CD #1. (It did *seem* OK up to the end of that CD.) And I think I must have messed up the "Apple Bootstrap" partition somehow; at one point the machine wouldn't boot at all, and I had to re-install YDL 4.0 to get another start. I hope it isn't too dumb to ask this: could such failures have produced the specific show-stopper I reported here? That causes the machine to react to every CD after the first by sneering "That's not the right Fedora CD." I made two copies of every single CD, on different machines from different downloads -- plus two extra copies of #2 -- and got that sneer every time. Also, once I knew only one #1, out of all the CDs in both batches, did anything right, I tried doing FC4's disk check on each. The one that works took a very long time to vet itself. Every one of the others got a quick rejection, which seemed to be saying that some sum wasn't part of the CD's name; I'm sorry I didn't get it exactly -- I was getting punchy by then .... Anyway, let me ask this: is there any hope that the true problem is not with the CDs themselves, but with something inconspicuously wrong with my apparent success up till the end of CD #1? IOW, is it worth while to try once more, with either set of the same CDs, but following that page? Or had I might just as well download and burn all five ISOs yet another time?? -- Beartooth Senectoflatuloid, Neo-Redneck, Linux Convert Remember, I have precious little idea what I am talking about. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
