Description of problem: I have been attempting to get Fedora 7 installed on an older G3 iMac I picked up at a garage sale. The optical drive has stopped reading discs beyond about halfway, whether CD or DVD, so I decided to do a net install using the boot.iso image found in the /images/ folder at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/ppc/os/. I originally tried doing this with the download.fedora.redhat.com mirror, with which it froze twice (two tries) around the 60-some percent mark (I'm not sure if it was this same package) and would proceed to say that the installer exited improperly and that I could safely reboot. I have now downloaded the DVD ISO, mounted it on my i386 desktop (running FC6), and set up a simple HTTP server to pull this all from. I have now booted from the boot.iso disc twice, and both times it hangs on the package mentioned in the summary. The difference between the Internet install and the local HTTP install is that the local install never gives me the above error; it just sits on the package with occasional hard drive activity (I let it sit for nearly 3 hours the first time, and it is sitting once again as I type this). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 7 PPC DVD How reproducible: Twice using download.fedora.redhat.com as a mirror and twice with a local HTTP server. Steps to Reproduce: Detailed above. The only thing different I did from a default install was to deselect GNOME and select XFCE for my desktop environment. I have not tried a completely default install, nor have I tried deselecting OpenOffice.org (I wish to have only XFCE and I want to have OOo installed right away). I will attempt to do an install with OOo deselected, and I will update this bug report should it hang on any other package. Actual results: Does not complete installation. Expected results: Continue on to next package and completes installation. Additional info: G3 iMac, 400MHz, 192MB RAM
I have attempted to do the install with the Office/Productivity box unchecked, and it did not hang on any other package. I have also attempted a completely default install, and it hangs on the openoffice.org-core package. I gave it a little over an hour before I just turned off the computer. I calculated that a 213MB file would take less than 3 minutes to transfer at 10Mbps, and I can't see it taking over 3 hours to install, so I'm guessing it has got to be a problem with the package or the installer. Could this be an issue with a default setting somewhere for Apache? At the moment, I have just left it at its default settings (because they seemed to work perfectly). I'm running the latest httpd from Fedora Core 6's repository. It doesn't seem likely, as it shouldn't take it so long to transfer the file that it would time out, but it is also the largest package I noticed (though I wasn't watching every one). If I'm not the only one experiencing this kind of problem, then I hope it can be worked out. I'm just wondering what kind of fix would be made available, as I don't know what your policy is on redoing a stable ISO release. Please let me know if there's anything I can try to help further troubleshoot this. Thanks for any input/help, Gideon Mayhak
I configured a quick FTP server and tried doing it via FTP and it still froze on the OOo package. I have now burned the rescue CD (instead of just the boot.iso disc) and it has made it past the package! I don't know what it would've been, but at least it's working with the rescue CD. I know I didn't receive any replies, but thanks anyway for this great distro! Thanks again, Gideon Mayhak
G3 iMacs are really really really old and slow for Fedora now. I have one here and I can only get it to install up to Fedora Core 5 and for that it takes about 12 to 14 hours. And then it usually crashes. I have heard reports of people installing FC4 or earlier and slowly using yum to step it up through each release (4 to 5, 5 to 6, 6 to 7), but even then you have to manually run yum and upgrade the packages in batches. So it's doable, just not by anaconda. Can't fix this one.