[ubuntu-uk] Loading Fiesty into Mac mini

[Robin Menneer]

On 4/29/07, Toby Smithe <tsmithe at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> 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).


Neither am I, but I have a Mac which came with the machine. Does one just
download the .iso file below onto the desktop, then onto the HDD ?  Surely
it cannot be that easy.  Back on Tuesday.

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.
>
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