Hi Beartooth,
Remember to check the md5 checksum of the ISOs after you download them,
and before burning them.
On macOS-X you do this with
openssl md5 thingie.iso
where thingie.iso is the file you just downloaded.
Look in <ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/iso/>
the 4.0.1 iso's (the ones you want to use -- the 4.0 ISOs are broken)
are called
yellowdog-4.0.1-orion-20050208-install1.iso 654,888K Document Tue,
May 24, 2005, 3:41 PM
yellowdog-4.0.1-orion-20050208-install2.iso 650,036K Document Tue,
May 24, 2005, 3:41 PM
yellowdog-4.0.1-orion-20050208-install3.iso 653,618K Document Tue,
May 24, 2005, 3:41 PM
yellowdog-4.0.1-orion-20050208-install4.iso 222,664K Document Tue,
May 24, 2005, 3:41 PM
Then md5 checksums are in file
md5sum 1K Document Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 7:37 PM
Note that the checksum file refers to them as
yellowdog-4.0-orion-20050208-install1.iso
etc. For some reason they drop the ".1" from the version name *but
retain the date* which is the clue to their real identity.
Go figure!
Rick
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On Jul 28, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Beartooth SenectoFlatuloid wrote:
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.
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