Help installing Fedora 8 on iMac G3

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I have been trying for a week to install Linux on my old mac: iMac G3, 500MHz, slot-loading CD, 20G HD. I am completely new to Linux and the only time I've ever used command prompts is on a PC, and a very long time ago, so if anyone is able to help me, please keep the instuctions as clear as possible. I appologise in advance for the long drawn-out detail below, but as I have no idea what the problem is I thought it better to give as much information as possible.

The problems I have had are:

1- Innitially tried to install Kubuntu 6.04 using a live image burnt onto a CD using InfraRecorder (on a Windows XP 2000 pc). The live CD would go to a black screen after the initial boot dialog and then run down.

2- As that didn't work, and I was not worried about removing the old OS, I tried installing Kubuntu, erasing the old partitions. It would install, then freeze on the login and not accept any of my keyboards for input (either the mac keyboard, a pc keyboard or either of my wireless keyboards) so it was not possible to log in. After several attempts at reinstalling Kubuntu and getting the same problem I decided to try installing Fedora.

3- To avoid downloading a large amount I downloaded fedora-8-ppc-rescuecd.iso from one of the recommended mirrors and burnt it to CD (using InfraRecorder on the pc). Initially the install process worked, and it requested a web address to download the images from. I chose the monash uni web site (html server) as it is relatively close, and the install proceeded up until I hit the 'yes' button for the final install process.

4- After hovering on the 'preparing to install' screen for over an hour I got this message:

"The file a2ps-4.13b-69.fc8.ppc.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a corrupt package or corrupt media. Please verify your installation source.

If you exit, your system will be left in an inconsistent state that will likely require reconfiguration."

with the option to reboot or retry. I hit retry and after another hour the same message came up again.

5- After rebooting the mac does not recongnise a bootable file (this was not a surprise). I put in the rescue cd, which boots without a problem, but requires me to know what to do (ie, use a command line and have a clue) to do anything.

6- I decided that it might work if I tried the live cd, so downloaded and burnt that. The live cd boots, goes through all the loading (mount dialogue? - with [ok] in green at the end of each line] then the computer goes to a black screen and the cd keeps buzzing away but doing nothing. I tried to restart the computer and typed in 'install' at the boot prompt, but get a message saying something along the lines of not recognised, or the iso can't be booted.

7- Which is where I am now. The HD has been reformatted (the old mac software does not recognise it - which is fine because I don't really want to go back to the old mac OS), but it has no installed OS that it can boot. Is this simply an issue of trying a different mirror to install the Fedora operating system, and if so, can you recommend one that has all the files intact? Or is the issue that when I burn the CDs it is being corrupted there? I can't download the DVD iso as the mac has no DVD player, and doing the install over the internet is not a problem for me if that is the only way I can do it.

Any advice would be most appreciated.

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