iMac install

[John]

volvoguy wrote:

>On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 19:18:44 +0100, Colin Watson <cjwatson at canonical.com> 
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>>Apparently some Mac models require Command-Option-Shift-Delete rather
>>than C.
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>I tried that too and it just booted OSX in "safe mode".  *shrug*
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>It's an odd problem. I can boot the OSX cd just fine, but I burned
>about 4 Ubuntu cd's last night that all appeared to be just fine and
>my iMac wouldn't do a thing with them. Oddly enough, the Ubuntu discs
>weren't even recognized while I was IN OSX - like it couldn't mount
>them or something. I could put the same disc in a windows or linux
>machine and mount/read it just fine. Weird.
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Try a different brand of media. Remember your pressed OSX CDs are real 
CDs,  those we burn ourselves are imitations with different optical 
characteristics. Sometimes those differences matter.

See this for the full bottle on CDs, right down to what happens if you 
pop one into someone else's microwave oven:
http://www.cdrfaq.org/


>Since I can't get it working, maybe someone can answer this question
>for me. Does Ubuntu run faster or feel more responsive than OSX on
>older machines? I'm assuming that it does (which is why I wanted to
>install it), because I know that all the drop shadows and transparency
>in OSX utilize a lot of resources.
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>Thanks for all the suggestions. I guess my Ubuntu iMac just wasn't meant to be. 
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>Aaron
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