[ubuntu-uk] Loading Fiesty into Mac mini

[Toby Smithe]

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 20:03 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
> Hi Toby, have you got any experience with these machines?  If so, can
> you give Robin a hand with the preparation for the install?  To us it's
> probably an easy task, but everyone's at different levels, and Robin
> could do with all the help he can get right now.

I don't have any experience with the machines; I'm just using the tools
available to me for research ;)

> It might also help if you could run him through the process of using
> nautilus to burn the disk image if he might find this simpler (a PDF is
> quick and easy to knock out - once, that is, it's established that he
> can actually burn a disk on the machine running Ubuntu - otherwise, it
> might be an idea to get someone who knows the Mac's burning software he
> might have).

It's as simple as download the desktop image to the hard drive, double
click file, reboot with CD. (Although I'm not sure how the Mac firmware
handles booting from CD).

This is the image file required:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/feisty/release/ubuntu-7.04-desktop-powerpc.iso

You should just be able to click the link; save it, and burn it from the
file manager.