Installing Ubuntu in OS X via Parallels

Monday, Apr. 30 2007 | Author: Dave

Simple Help has a great tutorial on getting Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn to work with OS X’s Parallels. I highly recommend this version of Linux to pretty much everyone I talk to, and so now I don’t have to leave out my friends that are Apple users.

This tutorial is for anyone with an Intel based Mac who is curious about Linux - specifically Ubuntu, and has about an hour to kill (not including the time it takes to download Ubuntu).

The steps and screenshots used for this tutorial are specific to Parallels Build 3188 running on a MacBook Pro w/ OS X (10.4.9). With that said, they will be nearly identical if you have a Mac Pro, Mac Mini, MacBook or any other Intel based Apple Mac.

Check it out at Simple Help.

Category: Linux, Apple

One Response for "Installing Ubuntu in OS X via Parallels"

Michael Francois

May 1st, 2007 at 11:21 am
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A good tutorial, but there are still issues, apparently with a kernel change, that make Ubuntu not ‘just work’ in Parallels. The fact you have to go through many hoops, and still maybe it doesn’t work, will hopefull get fixed in Ubuntu soon. Its just ‘not good’ that you have to tell it you are installing Solaris.

Mike Francois