Is dual-booting Mac OS X10.5 Leopard and Ubuntu 8.04 possible on a G5 iMac?
Michael "TheZorch" Haney
thezorch at gmail.com
Tue Oct 21 03:50:25 UTC 2008
Bo Grimes wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Edgar Sarino wrote:
>
>
>> Dear ubuntu users,
>>
>> My father has a 1st-generation 1.8 Ghz G5 iMac running the latest version of Mac OS 10.5 Leopard.
>>
>> Can I install Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop Edition in a seperate partition on the same hard drive and make his iMac dual-bootable?
>>
>> Please let me know - thank you in advance for your help and advice.
>>
>
>
> Never done it but it should be possible:
> http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/HOWTO
>
>
Its a lot easier to do on the Intel based Macs, and from what I
understand Ubuntu runs very well on them. The only stickler has been
the wifi support which should be fixed with the new kernel.
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