[Novalug] MAC mini PPC and Ubuntu

[Mark Smith]

i tried an 11.10 install last night.  after a couple of false starts
i was able to boot from a usb key and everything looked keen until i
reached the disk partition section.  no hard disks were represented.
i booted back to macosx and lo and behold my disk was there so obviously
it's missing a driver or something.  it's a standard ata disk bus so
i'm not sure why it failed.  google revealed nothing interesting.

anyway, i'll give debian 6.0.3 a go tonight unless something else comes
to mind.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 02:46:59PM +1300, Mark Smith wrote:
> Hey... I was gonna buy my daughter a smallish desktop computer for her
> room, but then i remembered that i had a MAC mini (one of the older
> PPC varieties).  I had originally purchased it due to its size and
> noiselessness; both of these features will be helpful here too.  It's
> not the latest and greatest, but for her needs it should be completely
> adequate.
> 
> I looked it up for Ubuntu and it turns out that it's supported in a
> fashion.  I have 32b PPC for 11.10 and 11.04.  At least it's way better
> supported than by Apple!
> 
> I found the right images to try and I found some documentation to help
> me along. Has anyone given this a go? or has some additional comments
> regarding this platform/os combination?

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Mark Smith
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