Re: VPC Mac Fedora Core 3 install?

From: Darrel Niemann (ng_at_theniemanns.com)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:02:08 -0800

OMG, Wes. That's a LOT of stuff to do to get FC3 to run! Wow...I am not a
Linux expert, and I don't think that I'll be able to get through all this by
myself. I think I'll pass....but thanks!

Are there other distros out there that anyone has been able to install/run
directly from the ISO's without mods?

elfer

On 12/19/04 5:32 PM, in article
no.spam-7E031F.19322319122004@comcast.dca.giganews.com, "Wes"
<no.spam@please.com> wrote:

> In article <1103126584.452920.244980@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> "dougjmac" <dougjohnson@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of a MAC OSX fix for the Fedora 3 install problem?
>> I've tried all of the "fixes" in this group, as well as the fixes at
>> Bugzilla but I still can't get Fedora Core 3 to boot. Most of these
>> fixes seem to be for the Windows version of VPC since they want me to
>> set up networking and use samba to access a shared folder on my local
>> machine. Sounds like Windows to me? Does anyone know of a MAC OSX fix
>> for the Fedora 3 install problem? Thanks.
>
> I haven't tried Fedora 3 yet, but I did solve my problems installing
> Fedora 2 on VPC 7 Mac. I will be trying Fedora 3 shortly.
>
> 1. After installation, I got "An unrecoverable processor error has been
> encountered" every time I rebooted. To solve this, I booted the
> recovery CD, did a 'chroot /mnt/sysimage', then rebuilt the kernel,
> changing the processor type from Pentium-Pro to Pentium-MMX (one step
> down). This was successful in creating a bootable kernel with the
> kernel source in /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358, as well as a freshly
> downloaded 2.6.9 kernel source. Building the kernel did take a long
> time. Obviously, to build a new kernel you need to have installed the
> kernel source and compiler tools.
>
> 2. The ethernet interface wouldn't come up. Attempts to reference eth0
> resulted in DEVICE NOT FOUND and similar errors, byt it showed up in
> hwconf. In /etc/modprobe.conf, I changed 'alias eth0 tulip' to 'alias
> eth0 de2104x'. Either a reboot or a 'modprobe eth0' then brings the
> eth0 interface online (it shows up in ifconfig).
>
> 3. Iptables shutdown script frequently hung forever unloading one of the
> modules. The modprobe command was 100% CPU bound. I haven't solved
> this one, but worked around it by changing /etc/init.d/iptables to set
>
> IPTABLES_MODULES_UNLOAD="no"
>
> instead of the current "yes" so that it doesn't attempt to unload the
> modules.
>
> Without the network up you can still get files into your session from
> the outside. Create a new VPC disk using VPC Disk Assistant. If you
> double click on it, it will mount on the desktop as read/write. You can
> drag files to it. When done, unmount it, assign it to your VPC Disk 2,
> and boot. The only caveat is that you can not have it attached to an
> active (or saved) VPC session and on the Mac desktop at the same time.
>
> Wes

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