I downloaded the Linuxppc (RedHat) ala instructions from
http://www.**-**.com/
up with my newly installed file system.

It came up with nothing, except errors.

The first one probably isn't a big problem. I get a 'fail' for setting
default font. It seems to keep booting after this one.

Here are the big error messages:

error in loading shared libraries libX11.so.6

Then finally there is a: INIT:Id "x" responding too fast disabled for 5
minutes

If you wait 5 minutes you go through the whole error process again. There
doesn't seem to be a proper way to shutdown from this because the next time
you boot up in Linux you get a not clearly unmounted message and it then
fixes something.

I'm hoping someone could help. These crazy errors are not motivating me to
buy linuxppc OS my machine. I did install Linux once before on an older PC,
but the performance in a graphic interface was pretty slow.

I hope someone can help me out with this install,

Erich
--
Erich G. Hanel
MSc Candidate
University of Alberta
http://www.**-**.com/ ~ehanel

Probably X11 is not properly installed and you can't get into X. I
assume that you start xdm to boot directly in X. If you use BootX, try
to put "single" in the kernel options: you should boot in the console
mode without login. Then by using a text editor (pico or vi) you should
edit xinit to comment out xdm (or xprefdm, a link to real graph. login
(->xdm, gdm or kdm)). Type exit, return; then a text login should start.
By using mc you can see what it missing or use ftp to recover the
missing rpm. Alternatively you can boot with the redhat installer if you
first used the Xinstaller that is known to have some problems. Using
BootX type redhat in kernel option. When in the redhat installer, select
the upgrade option (i don't remember if there are some screen between
but the use should be easy) and the preferred source of rpm (CD, FTP,
NFS, or local disk). Missing rpm should be installed (worked for me in
the past).

i'm glad i'm not the only one havigna  problem with the downloaded version
of linuxppc...

i keep getting a "warning: unable to open an intial console" and "kernel
panic: no init found"...

i'm a total newbie to linux so i have no clue what either of these could be
caused by...wish i did though...

anyone?...

Thanks and here's what happened.

First: I could not find the xinit file to edit, but no big deal I can see
what you were getting at with that first suggestion. I used "mc" but have no
idea how to use that interface to tell me what rpm files are missing. I plan
to give up on that one for now - the learning curve looks a little
intimidating

Second: The RedHat installer looked pretty easy. I went through it but on
one of the final steps where the installer tests xwindows it gave me an
error and the option to go back and re-select my monitor. Nothing worked
there.

Conclusion: The installer is pretty difficult (for me at least) and not
really intuitive (Caldera for the PC isn't bad). I'm going to keep going,
hopefully with some tips from this newsgroup.

I may re-download the files - though that will be a pain.

Erich

Anymore advice is very welcomed

You don't have to download all. The necessary rpms to be installed are
listed in the userguide (the last page) pdf format (on the net).
To check which rpm is installed you have to use ... rpm (the program).
man rpm to see the option to list the installed rpm. (I don't remember
any more, now I'm using X-based applications to manage the rpms (gnorpm,
kpackage e tkdesk according to the convenience).

Good luck,

Giuseppe