Installing Ubuntu on an XServe

Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital vital at br.ibm.com
Sun Jun 3 00:42:49 EST 2007


On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 11:55 +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
> Hi Todd,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:48:51PM -0400, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> >Another wrinkle that I should mention is that the version of parted
> >included with the Ubuntu install CD (I've tried using both alternate and
> >server versions) seems to have some problems. I could never get it to
> >set up the drives as a software RAID array and today, after dropping
> >into the shell and trying to run parted manually, I got a message saying
> >"You've found a bug in parted" which was promptly followed by a core
> >dump.
> 
> This is fixed in Debian. AFAIK, Ubuntu no longer supports PowerPC.
> 

Aurélien, the last Ubuntu version 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) supports Apple
Macintosh G3, G4, and G5 computers, including iBooks and PowerBooks as
well as IBM OpenPower machines.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/feisty/release/

But I don't know if the problem reported is fixed in this version of
Ubuntu.

Regards,
Paulo





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