Alex Coplan
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Post by Alex Coplan on Jan 9, 2009 17:04:25 GMT
Hi Guys I was thinking of putting Ubuntu on my iMac as an experiment, is it just as simple as boot from Leopard DVD, make a partition for it, reboot from Ubuntu CD, install, reboot, and alt to choose which OS, boot camp style? Or is it going to need loads of extra drivers or completely wreck my machine? This would be nice to know
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Post by Jinja on Jan 9, 2009 18:45:56 GMT
iirc VMWare Fusion 2 will do it. I have Fusion and it really is a nice bit of software, should be able to do Ubuntu....
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Post by Alex Coplan on Jan 9, 2009 23:20:35 GMT
Yeah, I have tried with paralells, but performance is bad, really bad. I really want the full thing. I ran the Ubuntu mem test (not VM, normal) and it found a load of bad memory, about 26 errors! I then went on to insert leopard DVD 1 and reboot holding down the D key for the AHD, I ran a basic test and no errors! Currentley running an extended test but it's taking for ever, so I'm going to sleep!
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Post by Jinja on Jan 9, 2009 23:41:49 GMT
VMWare is the way to go. Apparently Parallel's quite a bit slower too...
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Post by Alex Coplan on Jan 10, 2009 2:04:11 GMT
OK, but is it possible to run it as a core OS?
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Post by Alex Coplan on Jan 10, 2009 2:05:57 GMT
Oh, and by the way, the memory problems were not related to the install at all
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Post by Jinja on Jan 10, 2009 9:25:25 GMT
Not sure on running it as a core OS. Why would you want to... lol Where there's a will there's usually a way....
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Post by Alex Coplan on Jan 10, 2009 10:10:27 GMT
The boot works fine, I haven't tried instlaling it but made a partition, the reason for that is I have SERIOUS memory problems, I will post my problems under the help section... until then I will not install ubuntu, please read my cry for help!
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Post by Alex Coplan on Jan 11, 2009 0:09:53 GMT
Change of plan, I have had no problem with the memory and I installed ubuntu, everything worked fine, I rebooted and held down the option key for possible boot options, the first thing I thought was, oh crap. My windows HD was not there! Neither was any Ubuntu drive. I thought that the next thing to do would be to boot from the Leapord dvd and run disk utility, which I did, a glimmer of hope, I see Winsows HD in the side, no immediate problems, I also saw a disk which had a grey name, disk03, fat32, 10GB the rest was unknown, this was interesting, as I did set the partition in the ubuntu installer to that amount of space. So I quit the leapord installer, and restarted, holding down the option key again, still only Mac, so I ran the DVD again, and as I quit the installer, instead of clicking restart, I clicked Startup Disk... There I found Windows HD... Almost yay. So I reboot, with Windows selected, and fingers crossed... I wait for what feels like ten minutes (I have no backup guys!) Suddenley a very Windows-like BIOS comes up, and I see on the screen, Which operating system would you like to use, there I see Ubuntu and Windows, YAY, YAY, YAY, YAY, YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!! Ubuntu is amazing, it has all the mac drivers already installed, even Bluetooth, I am impressed very impressed. I realise what it did was install itself inside my Windows partition, but thank god it left my mac alone! If you have any spare time this is a really fun thing to try out, it actually boots faster than Leapord, 2.66 Ghz, 2GB RAM iMac
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Post by Alex Coplan on Jan 11, 2009 0:13:55 GMT
As you can tell I am quite happy, if anyone would like to try this just ask and I will post details on doing a mac install on here.
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Post by wierdostomps on Jan 12, 2009 16:37:31 GMT
Sir, sir, Mr Cat, sir - Manic Marmoset hasn't got a backup. Put him in detention sir!
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Post by Alex Coplan on Jan 12, 2009 17:01:31 GMT
It's not my fault, my parents won't buy me an external drive sir, firewire or USB, they say that they got a network NAS drive but that won't work with time machine sir, not without a lot of terminal commands, and if you do a reboot you'll lose all those settings anyway sir, please don't kill me, my parents are PC users!!!
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Post by jock on Jan 14, 2009 8:44:45 GMT
Marmoset, why won't the NAs work with Time Machine?
I have a Western Digital MyBook World 1Tb NAS and it works perfectly with Time Machine - OK, it took a little cheating to get it started, but after that, no problems at all.
I did configure it was RAID 1 because it has all my photographs and music on it and I really can't afford to lose any of that.
I've restored from it too - and although it's slow, it works.
Anything I can do to help?
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Post by Alex Coplan on Jan 14, 2009 8:51:37 GMT
As far as I know, time machine does not work work with LAN drives at all, only USB and FireWire
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Post by jock on Jan 14, 2009 9:28:08 GMT
No, it works with LAN drives - it needs a tiny bit of fiddling, mainly to create a dummy sparsebundle - some people can get it to work straight off, but I had to do the donkey work myself. This article is geared to the NetGear NAS, but the principle worked for my WD MyBookWorld. How to make Time Machine work with a NAS.If you want to try this and need help, email me.
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