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Ubuntu 7.04 release tomorrow, 7.10 named Gusty Gibbon
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Installing on small partition Hard Drive
I am having certain issue, I have total of three hard drives, 1. Mac OsX, 2. Windows XP, 3. Backup
The third hard drive I made a small partition just to have enough space for Linux Distro. When I was in the installation guide, I had no where to tell it to install into that 5 gig partition of 500 gig. Does anyone know how or where I can find a guide on this since I cant find it on Ubuntu Forums, since everyone thinks it doesnt work on Mac Pro?
I am having certain issue, I have total of three hard drives, 1. Mac OsX, 2. Windows XP, 3. Backup
The third hard drive I made a small partition just to have enough space for Linux Distro. When I was in the installation guide, I had no where to tell it to install into that 5 gig partition of 500 gig. Does anyone know how or where I can find a guide on this since I cant find it on Ubuntu Forums, since everyone thinks it doesnt work on Mac Pro?
I'll go home and try it after work then. I only got 50% of the download done last night at 3 AM.Oh really?
~desu
Edit: I've had no luck installed the release version in Parallels Build 3188.
Same here. I get the command to press enter or type live and after that the screen just goes blank and that's the end of that.
I finally got 7.04 to install on both my MP and my MBP. There are a lot of tricks to get it to run in Parallels including first running the machine as a Solaris machine. Some people have gotten this to work. Sadly it's not always going to work. A few times I almost got it fully installed and other times I could not get the DVD to load. I hear a guy had not problems running it in VMWare Fusion so I gave it a try. I hadn't used Fusion since Beta 1. It worked. Plan and simple. it worked wonderfully. There is a hitch in Parallels that causes 7.04 not to load. VMWare though has made me a happy Linux cat.
is there a guide for installing in mac Pro with a small 5 gig partition for this. I cannot get it to install on that one partition but instead detects the whole HD of 500 gigs.
Thank you
Thank you
I got it to work first try, with having very little idea of what I was doing. I guess I got lucky! I don't remember what settings I used for the virtual machine, but I'll take a look when I get the chance. Network is working as is sound.
One thing that isn't working so well is the update. When I try to get updates I get the message "Could not download all repository indexes." Not sure why and I haven't been able to find any info on it. This is my first exposure to Ubuntu. Any ideas?
Any easier to connect to wifi, WPA?
I have the older one (Before 7.04) and I couldn't figure out how to connect. None of the guides made any sense at all, and the best solution I could find was some big terminal game where you enter in about 10 long commands, edit some files to turn on gnome manager (#1 Reason why Linux just aint for me)..
Might upgrade if it is..
I have the older one (Before 7.04) and I couldn't figure out how to connect. None of the guides made any sense at all, and the best solution I could find was some big terminal game where you enter in about 10 long commands, edit some files to turn on gnome manager (#1 Reason why Linux just aint for me)..
Might upgrade if it is..
I'm running it through Parallels and the wifi works fine. Of course that probably doesn't count because Ubuntu thinks it's connected through ethernet via the Parallels network magic.
Made a 10GB partition for it and tried installing Ubuntu 7.04 normally by booting off the CD. No luck. Wouldn't start Xorg even in safe graphics mode or recognize my wireless card. This was on my C2D MBP.
wow.I think my Windows partition will be getting a little upgrade to ubuntu 7.04 tomorrow.
I've installed the Feisty Fawn onto my 12" Powerbook and it works like a charm. It is nice to get to use Picasa and get OGG/FLAC support on my Mac now
It's too bad you can't get all of those great visual effects while running it in Parallels.
I hate to be inconvenienced by having to reboot, virtual machine switching has made me lazy.
I hate to be inconvenienced by having to reboot, virtual machine switching has made me lazy.
Has anyone tried following the method/steps outlined in this tutorial?
How to install Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn) in OS X using Parallels
How to install Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn) in OS X using Parallels
Is there a method if I partition a hard drive for Linux all I find are guides like this one
Do you want to do this on an Intel Mac or a PowerPC Mac? If on Intel, the Ubuntu Apple Intel Users forum seems to have a good many message threads on that subject...