bootable disk for Mac Mini

[Tom Jenkins]

Eduardo,

I tried that before trying the other way, without
success. Perhaps I'll try that with the second disk.

Tom

--- Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón
<eduardo.saenz-de-cabezon at dmc.unirioja.es> wrote:

> Tom Jenkins wrote:
> 
> >Good day,
> >
> >I have tried twice to burn a CD from a downloaded
> ppc
> >version iso image that would boot on my Mac Mini. I
> >have inserted the OSX installation disk to make
> sure I
> >know how to boot from CD on this machine, and have
> >discovered that one does that by opening "System
> >Preferences"  and clicking "Startup Disk." All
> disks
> >available to boot into are listed in the window
> that
> >opens, then. When the OSX installation disk is in
> the
> >optical drive, it shows up as one of the options,
> when
> >the Ubuntu (or Mandriva, for that matter)
> installation
> >disk in in the drive, only the hard drive shows up.
> >I'd like to install Linux on this machine, and I'd
> >like to give Ubuntu a try, although I have been a
> >satisfied Mandrake/Mandriva user for several years,
> so
> >I'd appreciate any help I can get with this.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Tom
> >
> >  
> >
> It happened to me that I couldn't see the linux
> installation disk as a 
> startup disk from preferences, but even though I
> could boot from it just 
> pressing the "C" key while booting, the the
> installation went ok
> 
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