Looking for older Fedora distribution

[macunkie]

I have an older 15" powerbook mac "non intel" that I'd like to make a permanent fedora box out of . I believe Fedora 12 was the last distribution that installed on this particular system.

Where can I get this distribution in dvd.iso format ? I've randomly done the google thing and can't seem to find it.

I've been successful with installing the lastest version on my MacBook Pro, but I want to do something creative with my old powerbook.

Thanks for any help!

Samuel.

[ah7013]

Is this it?

http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pu...edora/ppc/iso/

[Fenrin]

I would consider to use either CentOS 6.x or Scientific Linux 6.x. It's more secure (because of security fixes) and should be almost bug free compared to the old Fedora 12. The oldest Fedora release which is still maintained is Fedora 15. Everything older does not get any security or bugfix updates usually.

CentOS and Scientific Linux is based on Red Hat. RHEL 6 is based on Fedora 12 I think (or F13?). RHEL6, CentOS 6, SLES 6 are still maintained several years.

http://www.centos.org/
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories (if you try CentOS, the default repos lack many common multimedia codes, so you would probably want to add one or more additional repos)

[ah7013]

Originally Posted by Fenrin

I would consider to use either CentOS 6.x or Scientific Linux 6.x. It's more secure (because of security fixes) and should be almost bug free compared to the old Fedora 12. The oldest Fedora release which is still maintained is Fedora 15. Everything older does not get any security or bugfix updates usually.

CentOS and Scientific Linux is based on Red Hat. RHEL 6 is based on Fedora 12 I think (or F13?). RHEL6, CentOS 6, SLES 6 are still maintained several years.

http://www.centos.org/
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories (if you try CentOS, the default repos lack many common multimedia codes, so you would probably want to add one or more additional repos)

CentOS 6 and SL 6 don't support PPC architecture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scienti...elease_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#Release_history

[Fenrin]

Originally Posted by ah7013

CentOS 6 and SL 6 don't support PPC architecture.
[...]

oh indeed ok. I didn't know that Macs require this special architecture.

[claudecat]

here's a link:

http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub...edora/ppc/iso/

[diamond_ramsey]

Originally Posted by ah7013

Is this it?

http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pu...edora/ppc/iso/

Yup!

DVD version is here - http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pu...12-ppc-DVD.iso

[RupertPupkin]

Maybe try installing F16 on that: http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-sec...edora/ppc/iso/

[macunkie]

Originally Posted by RupertPupkin

Maybe try installing F16 on that: http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-sec...edora/ppc/iso/

Thank you I'll give it a go !

[macunkie]

So I successfully downloaded the F16 on that: http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-sec...edora/ppc/iso/
burn't it to disk and now my 15" 1.25ghz won't boot from the created disk for an install. I burnt the disc with my MacBook Pro and don't know if this has any issued on whether it will boot in to my 15" or not. Maybe I'll trying buring the .iso using the my 15" powerbook and see if this changes. In my attempt to boot from disk , I'm holding down the "C" key and it just boots into Mac OS.

[Fenrin]

To install F16 you need at least 768 MB RAM. Maybe that's a issue for your older powerbook? F14 and older releases probably don't need more than 512 MB RAM.

[macunkie]

Nope 2 Gigs of Ram in my old PowerBook. But thanks for the suggestion. !

[bonedome]

Hello
google "boot linux ppc powerbook", plenty of suggestions there like http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1405442
hope this helps, I started off using yellowdog linux on my ps3 myself and still have affection for ppc