[CoLoCo] Converting iMac's to Ubuntu 12.04

[Diane Leikvold]

David, Anthony,
Thanks for the replies.  I created a 12.04 CD and it booted fine from that,
so I'll use that to install.  Are there any special drivers that I need to
be aware of for MAC or should it be straight forward?

As for help Anthony, we'll definitely keep you in mind.  We're looking for
extra help since we have a lot to do and a potentially short timeline.
 Hopefully we'll hit the ground running in the beginning of August and it
will probably be evening hours since Kurt (my husband) will be working
after hours himself.  We have a few long cable pulls along with making a
lot of short cables for rooms.  We are also looking at installing wireless
in the building, so we have our work cut out for us.

Thanks to both of you,

Diane.


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:02 AM, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com>wrote:

> Anthony is right - rEFIT is the way to go.  However, I'm not sure it's
> necessary anymore ( especially if you plan on booting only Ubuntu ).... I'm
> no EFI expert, but there should be support for that now on 13.04.  The
> other S76 guys would know better though...
>
> I found this as well in case that helps:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Intel_iMac
>
> More information on rEFIT here:
> http://refit.sourceforge.net/
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:40 AM, Anthony Zotti <zottianthony at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> While the only experience I have was on significantly different hardware,
>> I was able to install Ubuntu on the 2012 MBP using Refit. It is free as in
>> beer and worked quite well.
>>
>> While I am at it, Diane, I am happy to offer my time to volunteer if you
>> have any needs that I can help with. Probably best if you have networking,
>> simple admin stuff that can be done off hours as I'm probably a little too
>> far on the 'tattooed white trash' end of the spectrum but, it may be a
>> win/win as I seek to gain chops on some larger networks.
>>
>> Anthony
>> On Jul 25, 2013 1:53 PM, "Diane Leikvold" <
>> dleikvold at longmontchristian.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Diane here, thru the purchase of our new building for LCS school, we are
>>> inheriting 31 iMac5's.  I am interested in converting them over to Ubuntu.
>>>  We have found some documentation (
>>> http://tech-devnet.blogspot.de/2012/05/running-ubuntu-1204-on-mac.html)  and
>>> it looks a little more complicated than converting a pc.  Does anyone out
>>> there have experience, tips or tricks in converting Mac's to Ubuntu 12.04?
>>>
>>> Specs for 17-inch  iMac5,1  (Late 2006)
>>> Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM
>>> Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger
>>>
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Diane
>>>
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