Installing ubuntu on a Mac SE

[Andy Thornton]

If your looking for an old machine, I have a couple spare that my wife would
love me to get rid of :-)

I can pre-install it with Ubuntu if you'd like - you'd just need to pick it
up.

On undefined, undefined <undefined> wrote:

Dear Rob the party-pooer, I do believe your advice is sound, and will
undoubtedly take it !  It is refreshing to hear it "straight from the
shoulder", with no frills !  Several others have pretty much implied the
same, but much softer !

Mc

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:02 -0400, Rob J. Caskey wrote:
> The word is impossible. It's akin to putting a Jet Engine in a
> Model-T. You can take a few nuts and bolts from the jet engine and use
> them to hold parts of your Model T together but it will never make you
> fly. Sell/trade your MacSE and buy another computer, people here are
> doing you no favors and wasting your time. I might could bootstrap the
> Linux kernel onto it with a few weeks worth of work to the point you
> could get a command line and run a hello world program, others might
> could do it faster, but it will never run OpenOffice, a calender
> applet, or even Mine Sweeper on Linux.
>
> --Rob the party-pooper
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:30 AM, David McMillan <mcmillan at ktc.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the info !  It sounds like my quest is pretty complicated for
> > a "point and click" type operator, which I am.  I appreciate your
> > response and time, so thanks, again !
> >
> > Mc
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:28 -0400, Jake Wasdin wrote:
> >> On Monday 30 June 2008 18:17:35 David McMillan wrote:
> >> > I am very new to Linux, but have Ubuntu installed on my Dell 2400 and
am
> >> > pleased with it so far.  I would like to try to resurrect my old Mac
SE,
> >> > for limited use, so that I install a calendar, and possibly some
games
> >> > for my granddaughter.  It will have to be loaded through a "floppy",
> >> > also.  Would like some assistance with what version/kernel/whatever,
I
> >> > need to do.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > Dandy Klown
> >>
> >> I suggest that you take a look at this article:
> >> http://www.jagshouse.com/Linux68k.html
> >>
> >
> >
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