[ubuntu-uk] Loading Fiesty into Mac mini

[TheVeech]

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 20:30 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
> 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. 

Firstly, you download the iso to your HDD.  The desktop is hosted on
your HDD, so if you download it to your Desktop directory, you'll have
it on your HDD.

Secondly, with the downloaded iso, you use a disk burning application to
burn the iso to the disk.  Look for an instruction like: 'Burn Image to
a CD'.  This is very different to merely copying the iso file to a CD.

See:
Definitions (Reading only the introductions to these articles will keep
it simple)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_image
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.iso

Tutorials
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto (incl. instructions
for Macs)
http://www.ubuntuvideo.com/burning_an_iso_to_cd_with_ubuntu

Not forgetting Toby's instructions (repeated here) that avoid having to
install another application in Ubuntu:

> 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.

That said, I still think you should try to reclaim the new machine for
Ubuntu.  Is divorce an option? :o

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While looking at these links I also found something else that might be
helpful later - a tutorial for The GIMP (a benefit of searching through
resources):
http://www.ubuntuvideo.com/the_gimp_user_interface