help me lol

[macabuntu]

so i have a mini mac and have been wanting to check out Ubuntu for a long time, well i bought the ubuntu 8.10 32bit repositories on DvD from on-Disk.com and got them yesterday and partitioned my macs HD last night and put the DvD in thinking there was a autorun on it but no luck i went it to the folder to look around and i have no clue what to do .any help would be awesome thanks

[avtolle]

You will need to boot from the DVD to get started.

[McFrostey]

most important piece of information you forgot to put in was what Processor are you using? Are you replacing OSX or plan on using VMware? Dual Booting? what are you doing? if your using a PowerPC Mac Mini then you just wasted money on a ubuntu disc... ubuntu doesnt officially support PowerPC computers. But the Community Picked up for Ubuntus slack and made and DOWNLOADABLE ISO THAT YOU BURN TO A CDR OF AT LEAST 700MB post some more information about your computer so we can help you out more :)

[macabuntu]

Ok its 1.42 processor and yes im dual booting OS X and ubuntu i DL rEFIt-0.12.dmg put in on my thumb drive and when i try to open rEFIt.mpkg the installer pops up on the dock but nothing happens like no window pops up to install it.

[macabuntu]

Ok it is a 1.42 GHz PowerPC g4 ......... so i cant DB ubuntu on this ?

[avtolle]

What you will need to do is to download the ppc iso; see sticky at the top for location of source. Sorry I didn't ask which processor you had earlier, you would be further along in the process. See threads about a work around on installation from the alternate iso when installing. Good luck.

[macabuntu]

ok heres a nother one i DLed rEFIt-0.12.dmg and put it on my thumb drive but when i click the package the installer pops up but not a window to go ahead and install it............ do i have top make a iso cd cuz its the same dame this isn't it ?

[mkvnmtr]

If you have a powerpc mac you need the powerpc live disk or the powerpc alt. install disk to install Ubuntu. The bootloader that you will use is yaboot and it is on the disk. The only reason I can think of that you might need the DVD of the repositories is if you do not have internet. You can get all you apps and updates from the repositories as you want them. but then maybe I am not understanding what you want to do.

[macabuntu]

Ok i DLed the ubuntu-8.10-alternate-powerpc.iso and i cant find the iso file useing iso magic can you tell me what program to use for it? thanks

[McFrostey]

So you want/try to Dual Boot a PowerPC G4 with Linux and OSX...

is that it?

[macabuntu]

yes but but im haveing a problem burning ubuntu-8.10-alternate-powerpc.iso as an image with Infra Recorder

[McFrostey]

Ok i DLed the ubuntu-8.10-alternate-powerpc.iso and i cant find the iso file useing iso magic can you tell me what program to use for it? thanks
go to spot light Disc Utility Manager open it up and find the iso on the sidebar make sure you got a 700MB Cd in and click burn at the top of the window there ya go Linux For PPC.

[macabuntu]

and ubuntu-8.10-alternate-powerpc.iso will have the boot loader on the CD ? buy the way i should have told you that im doing this all on my home pc not the make but i can move ther file over useing my thumb drive

[macabuntu]

and i should have told you that iv been up for 48hours with a 3 hour power nap that the reason for the sloppy spelling. sorry

[mkvnmtr]

If you have a mac the easiest way to burn is with disk utility. Takes about 4n minutes. If you have downloaded on another machine just carry the download on a usb stick to the mac and burn it. You don't need to open it, convert it, decompress it or anything else. A little google search will find how to burn an image with the machine you are using.