[K12OSN] iMac thin clients
Jim Hays
haysja at sages.us
Wed Nov 17 16:48:07 UTC 2004
Thanks, Shawn. My old tech - he quit about 4 months ago - was working
with this. I have not been able to spend the time needed to get it
working. (Not a huge need but I do have some old Macs running around
that I would like to use as clients.)
Shawn Powers wrote:
> Jim Hays wrote:
>
>> In reading the Ubuntu site on the ppc side of things, it says that
>> the CD won't boot with anything older than an iMac. Do you have it
>> running on a Beige G3 All-in-one or a 5xxx series PPC?
>
>
> None of the pre-fruity macs will boot installer cds (ok, there are
> some exceptions, but for the most part it's a rule) -- you have to
> install a mac partition first. It's possible ubuntu was not designed
> to work that way, and might be a challenge to install.
>
> I know yellowdog 3 has intructions on their manual about how to
> install it on older machines... That's what I did.
> -Shawn
>
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