As far as I know yes. However, you hold the C key down right after the startup chime and hold it until the drive starts to spin. Of course this thread is no longer iOS related, so best we stop here. :) Good luck
On Jun 6, 2012, at 10:28 AM, RDLAW wrote: > that is an idea. Would I only need to place the UBuntu disk in the drive the > same as I would a standard pc? > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 03:33 > Subject: Re: free macs > > > Yeah Ricardo, but man those would make nice boxes to run Ubutu on. :) > I have an old G5 I am picking up from my parents since they really did not > make use of it and there are my plans for it. I thought it would be > interesting to see if I could connect iOS devices to it. > > > On Jun 6, 2012, at 2:15 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I mean, its free, and you can't really knock free but, you won't be able to >> run the latest operating system on there, and you will be using the first >> version of Voiceover which was pretty bare bones. I believe those are Power >> PC Macs, not Intel's so, you would only be able to upgrade to Leopard OSX >> 10.5 if I'm not mistaken. Honestly, as a voiceover user, I wouldn't bother. >> The experience with voiceover is really nothing like what you would have >> now running Lion 10.7. And with that antiquated hardware, I'm not sure how >> productive you could even be. I think it would just cheapen the Mac >> experience if you've never used a Mac before. Better off find a refurbished >> 2010 or 2011 Mac mini. >> >> JMO. >> >> Ricardo Walker >> [email protected] >> Twitter:@apple2thecore >> www.appletothecore.info >> >> On Jun 6, 2012, at 12:11 AM, RDLAW <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Someone on freecycle is giving away the following: >>> 2 Apple Power Macintoshes (no monitors included) Mac OSX-10.4 Tiger >>> Operating system on both: >>> >>> First Computer is a Power Macintosh G4/400 with 2 Gigabytes Ram, 40 >>> Gigabytes boot drive, 30 Gigabytes files drive, Firewire 800PCI card, and >>> gigabit ethernet PCI card. >>> >>> Second Computer is a Power Macintosh G4/Dual 500 with 1.75 Gigabytes of >>> Ram, 20 Gigabytes boot drive, and 30 Gigabytes files drive. >>> Is this worth going after? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>> Google Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
