Installing ubuntu on a Mac SE

[David McMillan]

Nope, I'm not that much into it, but thanks for the offer !

Mc

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 13:22 -0400, Andy Thornton wrote:
> 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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