[COLUG] Installing Linux on Old Apple PowerBook

Matthew Gardlik matt at mattgardlik.com
Wed Jul 12 22:03:19 EDT 2006


Jacob,

Thanks for the helpful hints.  I think I am going to try to play with it
a little this weekend if I get some time.

Matt


On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 19:57 -0400, J. Jacob Hopkins wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:47:58AM -0400, J. Jacob Hopkins wrote:
> 
> > Post install, booting from local disk, logging into X did not bring up the 
> > usual niceties of a desktop, only the background and pointer.  Time this 
> > morning prevents me from looking at it further, and I'm unlikely to look 
> > deeply as I have no plans to use that system graphically, or with Ubuntu. 
> 
> I did not have to look deep.
> 
> apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
> 
> Jacob
> jacob at teched.net
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