Is it possible to install Ubuntu without uninstalling mac os X? Can I just shrink the OSX partition while I install Ubuntu? I don't have the OSX DVD, so I can't just reinstall OSX. I am running an iBook G4.
View 9 RepliesI recently single boot installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my first gen Mac Mini. Everything was working great and wonderful. Now i am looking to uninstall Ubuntu and reinstall Mac OS X Tiger. I have the install DVD but no where am I able to boot the disk
View 3 Replies View RelatedI installed openSuse 11.2 64bit (DVD version). Later I installed the graphic card driver. Then I noticed that it's not working well due to an improper installation (didn't use the manual that you provided here). So I uninstalled the driver. Then, after reboot, instead of a regular desktop, I get a CLI and I'm requested to enter my login information. But in the boot menu, if I enter to the failsafe option, then everything works fine. How can I change the CLI to the regular desktop?
View 9 Replies View RelatedToward the end of installing Ubuntu 10.10 32bit (Alt CD) on my iMac 11,1, the installer asked me to type in the location for installing the grub boot loader.
I told it to use /dev/sda3 and it immediately failed. I'm still in the installer. Can anyone suggest a solution?
Here are my partitions on sda:
...from the shell in the installer, there is no grub.cfg in /target/boot/grub.
When I run it live, I see KDE4. When I install it off the same disk, it installs Gnome. I can't figure out how to install KDE4. I had no luck with apt-get install kde4 (E: Couldn't find package kde4), no luck with aptitude, no luck with Synaptic (The following packages have unresolved dependencis kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4).
View 3 Replies View RelatedNeither Ubuntu's Unity or KDE respond to the function keys on a regular Apple USB keyboard. I can plug in a non-Apple keyboard and they work just fine. What needs to be changed or configure so that F1 and company on the Apple keyboard work as on other keyboards?
View 1 Replies View RelatedThis morning I bought an Apple wireless keyboard and I got it connected through Blueman. It works like a charm, but I have on problem;
When I log out I can log back in by typing in my password. However, when I restart the computer it seems that bluetooth is not loaded yet and I cannot enter my password. So I have to log in using my wired keyboard, and then disconnect & re-connect to my wireless keyboard using blueman before I am able to use the wireless keyboard.
Is there any way that I can already auto-load bluetooth and connect to my keyboard before I log in?
recently I to come the Ubuntu 9.10 disk install and desire to do a clean in my macbook air installation problem is that this computer does not have a reader cd or DVD....
I wonder if there is any way to do the installation through a usb or I have to get an external reader for this installation, or if it is more easy install again my mac os x to partition the disk and do a dual boot
These are my laptop specifications:
MacBook Air (Rev A), 80 gb hd, 2 gb ram, graphics intel, one usb, one firewire
I'm trying to use an Apple wireless keyboard with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) but the fn key is not working at all. If I start up xev and hit the fn key it generates no event. What do I need to do for it to work. It seems as if it should work when viewing pages like
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I am trying to put ubuntu an old imac with osx that a former customer gave me. I am not extremely well versed in Apple products but have been doing research intoy current problem. I have tried just putting in the ubuntu shipit disc I have, along with downloading and burning 9.10 text based and have not been able to get it to install. I have tried holding 'c' when rebooting, holding 'option' while rebooting it only gives me the choice of booting from osx), and holding 'control, option, apple, delete' as well to no avail. I then tried downloading Virtualbox and mounting the dmg and found out that my imac is not letting me mount any dmg's at all. Any guidance? Can I take out the harddrive and hook it as a slave to my pc and somehow install ubuntu that way and put it back in the imac? All I want is for the imac to be useful again as I was trying to make it into a stand alone dvd player.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a very urgent problem, its so bad I dont know what to do...I tried to install a dual boot, (os x and ubuntu). I could always boot with the Ubuntu CD, but now I can try everything (format whole HD to *free space* ) press "C" at start up, press "alt" and choose "windows" (ubuntu cd) everything does not help even resettingPRAM with alt+P+Rwhat I get is a BLAC SCREEN with blinking underline (always)Does anyone know what I can do to make my mac again able to install a ubuntu, it seems I ahvessed up my irmware..?? I just dont know how? (I once overwrote my MBR according to a thread here... (but I reformated now the whole HD to freespace with GUID partition table.....but still blinking underline when I want to boot the ubuntu 9.1 cd.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have a ppc G4 with 10gb hdd and 512 ram and 350 processor. i have tried to install 6.10 alternate ubuntu package, that started to install but stalled at 6% installing software. i am now trying out 9.10 ppc alternate ubuntu package. it is going thro the install and so far so good, but again it stalls at adding software, it went to retrieve 858 files and stopped around 620.
ok so i re did the software install and it found all 858 files but then it reported it failed .... i carried on with the install but skipping the software install section, it has now completed whatever it was doing, rebooted and left me at a command prompt to login, which i can do ok.
I'm trying to install ubuntu on an old iBook G4. I have two cds (9.10 (not PPC specific) and 8.04.1 (the PPC specific version)) along with the G4 install cds. I've tried booting while holding down C, and I've tried to boot holding down option. When the boot menu comes up it does not recognize either one. I've also reset the PRAM.I've read a lot of guides, and look through this very thoroughly. I don't even want to dual boot, just Ubuntu.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI run lucid lynx 10.04 beta (live) on an iMac G4 800MHz flat screen. How do I partionate an 80GB HDD?
In gparted I see 8 very smal partition exept the hfs+ partition. I have thrinked the hfs+ partition and made a 1GB swap, approx 50GB /home and 5GB /.
When I try to install Ubuntu say I need a new world partion for the boatloader. How fix it? first it say I need 8MB, then 1.8GB!
Is it 'newworld' or 'New world start partition' and what should bee the mount-point?
I have downloaded the Ubuntu 10.04 alternate PPC to install on my old emac.
It starts fine the installation process, and I want to have only Ubuntu on this machine so I erased all the mac partitions and create 3 new partitions
/ = root
swap
and /home
Everything goes well until I get the message that there is not a partition called Apple_bootstrap and I get stuck there.
so i finally found my disk of ubuntu 6.10 that i know works. if booted fine and after the disk got formatted it proceeded to install. but to only gets about 73% through the install and then promptly crashes and when I tried it again it does the same thing.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI seem to be stuck on an loading screen of sorts after booting Ubuntu 10.04 from CD (the screen which shows the Ubuntu logo and 5 red/white blinking dots below). Boot options tried were: live, live-powerpc and check-powerpc (which showed no errors in the files)
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View 1 Replies View Relatedi am now downloading the ubuntu 6.10 iso file its gonna take a hour i would like to know how u install it i know how to use disk utiltity to burn the iso file i just need to know how to install it My mac is a emac - 1.42GHz - 512Mb ram - 3 partitions in hd - 80gb mac tiger - 60gb - mac leopard -20gb Ubuntu I just need to know how to install it
View 6 Replies View RelatedI remembered about my old iMac G3 and currently had OSX 10.2.8 installed on it but its too old to support flash so no ..... or anything (why I stopped using it) I do remember gnash working on it along time ago when I had Ubuntu 4.10 installed, gnash is just really glitchy but that was quite a long time ago I used it so I'm only assuming they have made some updates as Ubuntu progressed.
I tried have now tried 4.10, 6.04, 6.10, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10, and 10.10 all for ppc using the alternate installer cause the desktop installer just makes the iMac restart when I tried it with 8.04 I think it was so I just stuck with the alternate installer method and EVERY one of those versions of Ubuntu fails to install the base system..
I don't know what it is or why this is happening because that is the same disc I used before with 4.10 and it now cant find a file, I tried re downloading 4.10 and burnt it again on my dads laptop (Toshiba Satellite with Ubuntu 10.10) at 8x on a CD (the iMac has a CD ROM only). I can't figure out what to do, I just downloaded the Desktop installer for 10.04 and the alternate installer for 10.04 as well and I'm going to burn both of those and see what happens.
Every install I tried to do I did a full whip to the hard drive so its a fresh install of ubuntu only. I thought maybe something was wrong with the hard drive now so I tried 10.2.4 again and it installed fine and wanted me to update to 10.2.8 again so I turned it off and tried 10.10 again and nothing is working. It's going on a week soon I've been messing with this old computer trying to get it working and everything is failing on me
I get through the install just fine till the end Iv tryed twice. When i get to the "Who Am I" screen i fill out all the info the "Forward" Button doesn't light up, it keeps on installing till "Ready when you are" and then i'm kinda stuck.. I can go back to past screens and edit the info and stuff but thats it can't move on.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI own old G4 mac with a CD-RW and 2 hdd'đ (each of them has 32 GB) How can i install this port of ubuntu on it? --->Ubuntu 10.04<--- do i have to upgrade to some special firmware? i have downloaded desktop and server install iso images and burned them on a CD. I m going to try it on saturday
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to install Ubuntu on my ibook G4 (I don't care to have a dual boot) but I can't find a simple and concise set of instructions here.
View 3 Replies View RelatedThe wiki says there is a way to install from usb but I can't get it to work on my Macbook Air 3,2 (the Nov 2010 revision, not the one from last week).
My goal is to dual-boot OS X and Ubuntu, but I can't get the Ubuntu installer to boot. I've tried a lot of variations on the instructions I've found, so I get the feeling I'm probably missing something fundamental.
I installed refit and used BootCamp to partition the drive. I downloaded desktop/alternate and i386/amd64 isos. I tried to follow the instructions to use unetbootin on OS X to install the ISOs to my USB drive, but neither drive that I connect appears in the "Drive:" selector when on OS X. I used usb-creator-gtk and unetbootin on an Unbuntu machine to try each of the four ISOs.
When I try to boot the Air from the USB drive, I got a few different types of failure:
gpt, single fat partition, unetbootin -> alternate amd64
result: "Non-system disk" "Press any key to reboot"
mbr, single fat, unetbootin -> alternate amd64
result: black screen, fan runs at 100% after a minute or two
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I tried dd'ing a disk image to my new partition as described here and here with the desktop amd64 and i386 images, got a few different errors - once syslinux complaining "Error: No configuration file found" when the drive I dd'd from wasn't properly unmounted before bringing it to the Air, once I chose the drive in refit, refit displayed the single logo, and it never booted, and once I got an error I didn't copy down about needing a boot floppy.
Has anyone successfully booted Ubuntu from USB key on the Air? Exactly how did you prepare which image?
I installed Ubuntu on my G4 I tried it on my G3. it booted off the Live CD fine but when I launched the installer it would crash. I'm not planing to install it on there but I'm wondering why it did that?
View 3 Replies View RelatedModel:MacBookPro1,1
Intel Core Duo 2,16 GHz (32 bit)
OS X 10.6.2
Boot ROM-version: MBP11.0055.B08
SMC-version (system):1.2f10
2 gb ram
I've tried this guide: [URL] to USB Stick
with both the standard 9.10 32 bit cd and the netbook remix. when I try to boot and hold alt the only partition that appears is the os x one. so no usb.
the cd reader is broke. that's why I'm trying via usb.
edit: its a usb stick btw, 16 GB that I'm trying to boot from.
I have a Macbook Pro with a b0rked DVD drive, and want to install Ubuntu on it.
I have followed the instructions here: [URL]
But when rebooting and holding ALT, I don't get the option of booting from USB.
Possibly related, when I view the USB drive in Disk Utility it's marked as "Bootable: no" :
I've tried this with two different USB sticks.
I've also burned a Ubuntu install disk from the original ISO, loaded it into another mac and started that mac in Target Disk Mode. Then I connected them with Firewire, rebooted the mac *without* the disc drive, held ALT and chose the shared disc as the boot device. Though weirdly it was named "Windows". Sadly, I then got a message on a black background saying it was not a bootable device.
It seems that there is no "safe graphic mode" or similar when running the live cd.I only get a blank screen.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have created a partition through Boot Camp, downloaded the 64 bit Intel installer for PC and Mac, verified the checksum, burned a CD from its image (on the second try), but when I try to boot up from that CD, rEFIt refuses because of a "legacy" problem. I assumed it would be a live CD, from which I could do the installation; am I wrong, is there another way to install from it? My MacBook Pro 5,3 is the one exception to having its own installation page.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to install Ubuntu Server 10.04 on a PPC G4 PowerMac.
It took a while, but finally I managed to get through the installation.
Unfortunately, after choosing Ubuntu from the yaboot menu at startup, it takes a moment and then displays a kernel panic about not founding /sbin/init .
Well, /sbin/init is there for sure (I've checked again, using the CD).