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goog morning, I need urgent help. Last night I tried to browse the new release of ubuntu from the cd on my iMac; I thought it wouldn't install it, but ...
  1. 02-05-2008 #1
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    Question Ubuntu/iMac problem

    goog morning, I need urgent help. Last night I tried to browse the new release of ubuntu from the cd on my iMac; I thought it wouldn't install it, but it did. Now the result is that when I switch my iMac on, it requires the ubuntu cd. If I put the Apple Tiger cd, it does not recognise it, and now I don't know what to do to go back to my original Operating System.
    Any idea of what happened and how to assist me?
    thank you.
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    Hi and Welcome !

    Ubuntu or any other Linux Distro doesn't install itself unless you click on Install Icon and follow instructions. Installation takes around 15-45 mins depending on Machine specs.

    Boot up from Ubuntu CD, open Terminal and execute this
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    Post output here.
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    hi there

    and thank you for replying. Actually Ubuntu did not install itself, however I was trying to look for all my files I have in memory and did not know where to look for them...As soon as I go home I will try with your suggest.
    I hope you'll be willing to help me again should I need.
    Thank you very much.
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    You are Welcome ! If Ubuntu installer hasn't formatted all partitions then it will be easy to fix/remove Ubuntu. Output of sudo fdisk -l command will help us to figure out what had happened and what we can to do fix the problem.
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