Fedora on Dual G5

xblue · #1 29th July 2007, 11:19 PM

Hey, anyone having problems with cpu fans on the dual G5 throttling to insane speeds?
At one point it sounded like my G5 was going to take off! I didn't even make it threw disc verification before I desided to shut it down. I was booting FC4-ppc-disc1.iso for an install. It also did this with the FC3-ppc-DVD.iso I tried to boot, thought maybe going to FC4 would fix the problem.

lazlow · #2 29th July 2007, 11:35 PM

All versions of FC prior to FC6 are no longer supported. You may have the best luck with F7 as it should have the best hardware support.

xblue · #3 29th July 2007, 11:38 PM

Where do I get F7?

xblue · #4 29th July 2007, 11:52 PM

Wait I'm a little mixed up here SORRY!, first I did try F7 DVD. Not a F3 like I said before. F7 tried to load but then it got locked up, didn't even make it to disk verification and then my fans started going ballistic. The F4 was a disc.iso I downloaded a while back, so I popped it in and it made it to disc verification and then my fans took off like a bat out of hell! Maybe I should try an F7 from a diffrent mirror download.

lazlow · #5 30th July 2007, 12:30 AM

Check the sha1sum of the iso(bad download) and then after you burn it to disk check the it also matches(bad burn).

xblue · #6 30th July 2007, 01:01 AM

I've been downloading these .iso's with MAC OSX, do you think that's a problem? I don't have a Linux machine with a burner, just an old laptop with a DVD player that's running F7. Also I can't find sha1sum as a command in OSX's terminal. how would you format that command? I'm still pretty new at this command line stuff!

lazlow · #7 30th July 2007, 01:10 AM

I should not matter what OS you download to.

I do not run macs but you can give this a try:

http://terrychay.com/blog/article/ve...mac-os-x.shtml