Ubuntu Edgy or Feisty on the MacPro
This is not a precise question, i know. But I hope someone else with an MacPro got it to fly and can give me some hints.
As you can see in my other support request i haven't had any luck with feisty installer, because raid setup is broken in herd1
Machine is as follows:
MacPro
2 GB Ram
2x 250 GB Disks
Sony DVD
ATI X1900
Using amd64 Version of Ubuntu
So I took the long way and with a lot of patience and an external usb dvd drive I got edgy installed. Edgy didn't recognize the X1900 which should be supported by the latest ati drivers... So I upgraded to Feisty. But as u know feisty isn't stable yet and problems are to be expected. Well there are. Currently the fglrx isn't installable. Due to libgcc version problems. So I will wait for this to get fixed.
Does anyone already have feisty running on the MacPro, Maybe also with the X1900?
Does anyone know if the mactel-linux patches are already in 2.6.19 ubuntu?
And has anyone else had the problem that after the upgrade the initrd seems to be broken?
I cannot boot the 2.6.19 kernel. If I try I find myself in initramfs shell which claims not to find the root file system.
Hoping for a little conversation here ...
Thanks in Advance.
Michael
PS : Some notes on my efforts to get ubuntu or debian to fly can be found at https:/
As soon as the setup is compatible with end users I plan to release an installation guide in englisch and german, so others would have a more easy way to free their mac :-)
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