[Novalug] MAC mini PPC and Ubuntu

[Mark A. Metz]

I think you'll have to remove the Apple OS partition table with the live image or GParted first.
I think it will work unpartitioned.

Mark Smith <mark at winksmith.com> wrote:

i tried an 11.10 install last night. after a couple of false starts
i was able to boot from a usb key and everything looked keen until i
reached the disk partition section. no hard disks were represented.
i booted back to macosx and lo and behold my disk was there so obviously
it's missing a driver or something. it's a standard ata disk bus so
i'm not sure why it failed. google revealed nothing interesting.

anyway, i'll give debian 6.0.3 a go tonight unless something else comes
to mind.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 02:46:59PM +1300, Mark Smith wrote:
> Hey... I was gonna buy my daughter a smallish desktop computer for her
> room, but then i remembered that i had a MAC mini (one of the older
> PPC varieties). I had originally purchased it due to its size and
> noiselessness; both of these features will be helpful here too. It's
> not the latest and greatest, but for her needs it should be completely
> adequate.
> 
> I looked it up for Ubuntu and it turns out that it's supported in a
> fashion. I have 32b PPC for 11.10 and 11.04. At least it's way better
> supported than by Apple!
> 
> I found the right images to try and I found some documentation to help
> me along. Has anyone given this a go? or has some additional comments
> regarding this platform/os combination?

-- 
Mark Smith
mark at winksmith.com
mark at tux.org
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