On Fri, March 24, 2006 1:52 pm, Robert Citek wrote: > Has anyone here installed (i.e. not LiveCD) Ubuntu on a Mac? If so, > what was the oldest Mac you were able to get Ubuntu installed on?
I tried to install Ubuntu on an iMac 233. These machines came with 64 MB RAM. Gnome choked. I didn't bother with the server install but I can't imagine why it wouldn't work. I know you are using a stripped down Ubuntu already so you probably already have the packages together. Still, 64 MB is really too low for any modern distro. All the hardware worked fine, but I didn't test the sound. > > At ByteWorks we normally do not take in Macs as donations. That's > because we don't have the infrastructure to make them work (i.e. no one > there is familiar with them, no extra software, no extra hardware, etc.) > However, if Ubuntu/Edubuntu ran on them, then it may > be worth our while to accept them. The older iMacs used SO-DIMM (laptop RAM) which is still ridiculously expensive, so it is unlikely you can make good use of old iMacs if you don't want to spend money on RAM. More info: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58007 Of course, if you come across a donated Xserve, I hope you will keep me in mind to...uh...test it...permanently... -M _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
