Another angle on FC4.ppc -- maybe ...

[Rick Thomas]

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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