On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 13:00 +1300, Craig FALCONER wrote: > Hey all > > Just to let you know that I've sucessfully put a 40 Gb IDE drive into > my imac, and I've got OSX 10.3.something installed fine. I couldn't > install 10.4 cos school's copy was on DVD not CD. > > I can assist or advise if you want to change the hard drive. > > How are you all going with yours?
Ken says: When Ubuntu sent me a dozen copies of 5.04 for Intel they included a couple for PowerPC and one for AMD64. Magnum Mac wanted $300 for OSX and it didn't come on CD. At home I discovered some of the reasons why OS9 had to be upgraded to *nix OS10 in 2002: several things need unicode support, for example. And my daughter wanted to print with her $230 Brother HL2040 laser. So I installed Ubuntu on the iMacs. I'm delighted. Daughter is delighted. Everything works. And the right-hand mouse button on those splendid Apple optical one-button mice is, as everyone but me knew already, F12. Three cheers for Ubuntu!
