Cannot install Pacman? (Arch Linux on PPC, Power Mac G4)

Hi
I'm trying to install PPC Arch on a Power Mac G4
Everything is fine until the point where I need to Install the packages.
It asks me to select another server (There's 3 available), because Pacman apparently cannot download? But the other two seems down.
The error the first one gives: "Error downloading pacman! Try another server."
There's:
1) ftp://ftp.archlinuxppc.org
2) ftp://xentac.net
3) ftp://ftp.archlinuxfr.org
When selecting 2, and 3 it says: "Error fetching package list from server".
Also "INIT: ld "c0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes"
What do I do?
Thanks in advance
Last edited by Eax (2009-02-04 18:41:04)

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