Can't boot Fedora 4 on my Mac (PPC, G4)

Scott Kaplan linuxrrules at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 21:11:55 EST 2005


Paul,

I tried your suggestion and I get this error -

_X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for
localhost:6001:Temporary failure in name resolution: Cannot open
display ":1"

Scott

On 11/21/05, Paul Nasrat <pnasrat at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:03 -0500, Scott Kaplan wrote:
> > Paul - Sorry about that, yes, more information would be helpful.
> >
> > I have a Mac OSX Webserver (PPC G4 Architecture)
> > There are a total of 4 hard drives.
> > Before installation I ejected 3 of the 4 drives, because being very
> > new to Fedora, I didn't want to overwrite or harm my existing stuff on
> > the other drives.  I had to do a text base install (boot: linux
> > video=ofonly text) and everything appeared to work correctly until I
> > tried to boot.
>
> Can you try to boot the installed yaboot image passing video=ofonly
> debug (tab should list available targets).
>
> Paul
>
>



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