I recently remembered that I wasn’t using the internal hard drive in my Mac Mini, rather my external firewire drive… so I’m going to go about installing a distro of Linux called Ubuntu on it. Hopefully it will have native support for most of the hardware in the mini, or I will switch to a version of Fedora Core 4 for PPC that works well on the mini. I’ll try to chronicle the events or show a brief how-to if I can make the time between studying for a Physics test and a Calc3 midterm.
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i pulled down kubuntu last week. id like to do a dual boot, as it will be my first but i may drop it on a spare lappie.
http://www.kubuntu.org/
I tried that with my iBook once. Screwed everything up. I needed up install OS X back again, but then I erased my back-up partition. Lost everything!!!!
Luckily I remembered making a back-up to .mac.
It’s not easy to partition on OS X (unless you want to lose everything). Windows makes it so easy though. If you go for the install, back up everything you need … just in case. My opinion, not a big Ubuntu fan … more of a SuSe/openSuSe.org fan.
Everything I use on my mini is on an external 300gig FW drive… as in the mini boots off of that drive. I’m installing Ubuntu right now on the internal drive which doesnt have anything on it, and the external drive is switched off so no harm can come.
Arghs…. So Ubuntu is installed and working fine, but I just found out there is no port of Macromedia’s Flash Player for PPC. I googled a bit and found out I’m not the only one and that there’s a petition to get Macromedia’s attention. However, I don’t think Macromedia will budge. There are not many people using PPC Linux and with Apple switching to Intel soon, there will be even less people. Oh well.
It seems to be possible, at least the Gentoo hackers got somewhere:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117774
But from what I read on the Ubuntu forums, it’s still a pain. Good luck! :)
i’ve alwasy been a fan of the SuSe movement. One thing I was impressed with Ubuntu etc is the fact that you dont need to pull down 6 .iso’s at 500 MBs ;)
hi ,currently supplied ubuntu cds are veryy slow with installation is there any method with command line installation method.whenwe boot the cd?