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macabuntu
January 10th, 2009, 05:11 PM
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

oldos2er
January 10th, 2009, 08:12 PM
You need to boot from the DVD.

macabuntu
January 10th, 2009, 11:18 PM
yes i know that but what i dont know is how to.

oldos2er
January 10th, 2009, 11:55 PM
Go into your BIOS, and set your machine to boot from CD.

macabuntu
January 11th, 2009, 12:18 AM
im running a mac mini no bios

oldos2er
January 11th, 2009, 12:21 AM
You'll probably find better help here: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=328

macabuntu
January 11th, 2009, 12:23 AM
thank you