[nflug] ubuntu on old imac

[eric]

It might be a little bit faster with the hard drive install, but xfce is
prolly the way you are going to want to go if you want gui, other wise
the system would make a nice CLI "something" server plus you can put
webmin on it if you need gui.

As far as removing the monitor, well, can't help you there, but it
sounds like more fun.

Ahhh this is the site....
http://penguinppc.org/mac/
you should find everything here


Jason O'Bara wrote:

> Thanks for the links. Well I think I am making a little progress.
>
> I could not get it to boot from the CD. The "c" key or another one I
> found (command-option-delete-backspace) would get it to force a boot
> from CD. I pulled the HDD and thought it looked like any other one I
> have kicking around and swapped it with a blank one. This seemed to work
> by truly forcing it to look to the CD for a bootable disk. The Ubuntu
> live CD does boot and brings me to a desktop, but I have run out of time
> for today and will try to install tomorrow.
>
> I almost forgot, during the Ubuntu bootup, the screen does indeed go
> dark, so I plugged in my regular monitor to the external VGA port on the
> back of the iMac box, and I can now see. It does boot pretty slow, I am
> hoping that is because of not booting from the HDD.
>
> I wonder if I can take it apart to separate the monitor from the rest
> of the machine? It would make it lighter and easier to carry =>
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