Install

[Avi Greenbury]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:48:55 -0400
Kevin Merinsky <kevinmerinsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was looking for help installing Ubuntu on my Mac. I have a brand new  
> intel mac and i have an old PC i wanted Ubuntu to be on both. If any  
> one has ideas on how to make a compatible FTP server out of the PC and  
> Desktop client on my mac, I'm all ears.
> 

What do you mean by your last sentence?

If it's to boot the mac from the other box with PXE over TFTP, see [1]

If you want an FTP server on the pc, and an ftp client on the mac, your best bet really is to have a look in Aptitude (if Ubuntu's on both). I like proftpd and gftp, but there's plenty to choose from.
If you want to have an FTP client on the mac, i've heard good things about fetch[2], but had little reason to use it myself. OSX does have a command line FTP client.

If you want to share files nicely over the local area network the two machines reside on, you want to look at nfs.

[1] http://wiki.koeln.ccc.de/index.php/Ubuntu_PXE_Install
[2] http://fetchsoftworks.com/downloads.html
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Avi Greenbury <god at lordandmaker.co.uk>