Can FC4.ppc be installed on an iBook withOUT OSX??

From: beartooth (beartooth_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 07/30/05

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    cross-posted to gmane.linux.yellowdog.general and
    gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general; followups set to
    gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general

    I have a G3 iBook which has had no slightest vestige of OSX since I hosed
    that (on purpose, with great glee) when upgrading YDL 2.3 to 3.0; and wild
    horses couldn't've dragged me to putting it back when I replaced YDL 3.0
    with YDL 4.0. It has run fine all that time.

    But I have downloaded ISOs twice, and burned CD3 three times, always
    checking sha sums, and using k3b with slightly different settings -- two
    of them including Verify Written, which i believe checks md5 sums.

    Out of all my attempts, most won't even boot into the FC4 install; the
    one time one did, it couldn't get past the first CD.

    Some of the trouble came from my initial attempt to tinker with the apple
    bootstrap partition; Fedora told me Don' Nebber Do Dat, and I *thought* I
    had UNdone it; but maybe not.

    Anyway, even with CDs that can hardly have any problem I've yet heard of,
    and knowing not to touch the fershlugginer partition, I can't get FC4 to
    do anything more than mess up the machine -- to the point where I have to
    get out my Terrasoft YDL4 CDs and reinstall that to be able even to boot.

    I'm wondering if by any chance the people who produced FC4.ppc imagined
    that anyone wanting it would have OSX, and never realized that some of us
    (possibly even a majority of those ready to try FC4.ppc on sight) would
    long since have gotten rid of OSX.

    Could that vile thing be? Or am I barking up yet another wrong tree?

    (I'm beginning to think of applying the big hammer -- a sixteen-pound
    sledgehammer -- after setting the iBook on a convenient solid stump ....) 

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