booting ubuntu from a live cd on a mac

[crazyybomber]

okay i am using a g4 apple ibook and i am interested in switching to ubuntu so i downloaded the live cd version and have tryed burning it onto a disk numerous times and tried booting it up numerous times i looked around at various tutorials around the net and tried there solutions such as holding c key holding command option shift delete and holding command c none of which worked allot of people have also told me to switch my BIOS to check for cd and i know how to do this on a pc but not a mac if anyone could help thad be rad

[kkubasik]

Mac's dont have a BIOS, you need to find a PPC version of the live cd, I bet you have the x86 version, so your mac's bootup system reads the first sector of the disk, where a reference to an x86 bootloader resids, on your mac it means nothing, so normal startup procededs.

[crazyybomber]

nah...i got the power pc version of it and i tried knoppix on it as well which is supposed to be architecture independant or something

[leverknight1]

if you can take the time for cds to arive you can order the cds from ubuntulinux.org they will ship them to your house for free i ordered mine that way and they work perfectly.

[crazyybomber]

yeah i was going to do that but i wanted to try it out first with a live cd whatever guess ill just do that

[jens]

You have to hold down the "C" key while booting, than it should work...

[crazyybomber]

uhh "i looked around at various tutorials around the net and tried there solutions such as holding c key"

[jens]

uhh "i looked around at various tutorials around the net and tried there solutions such as holding c key"

Well, it did work for me...(that is, on a friend's system)
PS: If you read all those tutorials, you probably also noticed their's also a problem with wireless stuff(still haven't found a fix for that).

[leverknight1]

the one you can order come with a live and install cd