Re: [tlug] Newbie buying a computer and installing Linux on it

[Joseph Essertier <essertier@example.com>]

On 月曜日, 5 2, 2005, at 04:24 PM, Jim Tittsler wrote:

> On May 2, 2005, at 09:58, Joseph Essertier wrote:
>
>> I have 2 old Macs, but installing Linux on them sounds really hard 
>> and time-consuming,
>
> How old?

One of the first iMacs and a Wall Street (233 mghtz.?)  The iMac has 
lots of problems, such as a broken CD drive (CD stuck inside it), 
broken keyboard, and broken mouse.  OS 10.3 was successfully installed 
on it, but it was really slow.
>
> This weekend I was playing around with Ubuntu on my iMac, and was 
> pleasantly surprised by how smoothly everything went.  Ubuntu offers 
> both "live" and "install" CD-ROM images for download/BitTorrent.  If 
> you have broadband, trying the "live" CD is painless since no 
> installation is necessary to explore it.
>   <http://www.ubuntulinux.org/>

That sounds great.  I tried to download the "live" version and run it 
on the Wall Street, but must have done something wrong because although 
the files are all there on the CD that i burned, when i try to start up 
with the CD drive--by holding down on the "C" key--it doesn't seem to 
recognize it.  It just ignores the CD and starts up in OS 9.2.  Is 
there a little step-by-step guide on how to burn an ISO CD somewhere, 
something i've never done before?

Joe
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