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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