Ubuntu on early 2009 Mac Mini (3,1)

Well that was a pain but at least it seems to be working now. I wasted so much time on this that I figured it would be worth while leaving some notes.

Here's what didn't work:

• Creating bootable USB drives using the following method http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx
• The default 64 bit 12.04.3 server image
• The default 64 bit 12.04 desktop image
• The default 64 bit 13.04 desktop image
• All three of these show up as 3 options when booting and fail to start the installer
• Then I discovered that there are mac specific images for 12.10 and 13.04 - I chanced upon these and never once saw them mentioned in any guide that I read elsewhere. Check the releases site, eg. http://releases.ubuntu.com/raring/
• Still I had problems with 13.04 desktop - it installed but would not boot into the desktop unless I started it in recovery mode. I almost got caught up in trying to make this work but then remembered I only wanted a headless server install in the first place

So here's what did work:

• The 64-bit Mac (AMD64) server install image worked fine and now I have what I wanted (almost - I would have preferred the 12.04.3 LTS version but I can live with 13.04)

BuildItAndTheyWillCo.me part 2

Well I don't think they will. I got this running and along the way I learnt a bit more about AWS, Chef and Knife. But now I kinda lost interest :o and will take my new knowledge on to the next project.

For now there's a blank word press installation running at test.builditandtheywillco.me but it won't be there long. I'll keep hold of the domain name for a while though and add it to the list (along with IKnowTh.is).