Installing Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on Mac 2 x 3 GHz Dual Core Xeon

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Tue May 8 00:36:32 UTC 2007


Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> William Clapham wrote:
>> I tried to install Feisty Fawn 7.04 on my Intel Mac following instructions
>> provided in the Simplehelp tutorial.  I got as far as the boot stage and
>> receieved the error message:  Your CPU does not support long mode. Use a
>> 32bit distribution.  I am a newbie.  Can someone advise me what to do next?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Were you trying to use the AMD64 version of Feist? It seems this error 
> is telling you to use the i386 version.

Try for instance the download
http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/ubuntu-releases/feisty/ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso
.  That should be the right version for an Intel Mac, but I think you
still need "Boot Camp" or a similar workaround.

Best,

Matt Flaschen




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