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Experience Installing Ubuntu "Dapper Drake" on PowerMac G5?
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<blockquote data-quote="Logan" data-source="post: 254912"><p>The magic key is ALT. I use it to boot off a LiveCD (like SLAX or UBUNTU). You *might* be able to hold ALT and boot off a firewire hard drive. (This isn't tested or in any way guarenteed, I don't have a second HDD via firewire to test.)</p><p></p><p>If you can get a second hard drive to boot, then that's that.</p><p></p><p>But if not, GRUB may be able to do it. (You would hold ALT, select a CD as boot up drive, have it boot up the second hard drive).</p><p></p><p>If that's possible you'd need to:</p><p>Get ubuntu CD iso open it up and hack the ubuntu GRUB loader to install/boot off the second hard drive.</p><p></p><p>Once done:</p><p>Mac starts. Hold ALT. Select CD. (it boots) , select second hard drive option. Kboom, second disk boot. In theory at least.</p><p></p><p><-- Uses intel mac.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Logan, post: 254912"] The magic key is ALT. I use it to boot off a LiveCD (like SLAX or UBUNTU). You *might* be able to hold ALT and boot off a firewire hard drive. (This isn't tested or in any way guarenteed, I don't have a second HDD via firewire to test.) If you can get a second hard drive to boot, then that's that. But if not, GRUB may be able to do it. (You would hold ALT, select a CD as boot up drive, have it boot up the second hard drive). If that's possible you'd need to: Get ubuntu CD iso open it up and hack the ubuntu GRUB loader to install/boot off the second hard drive. Once done: Mac starts. Hold ALT. Select CD. (it boots) , select second hard drive option. Kboom, second disk boot. In theory at least. <-- Uses intel mac. [/QUOTE]
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