Hi Guys,
THe last company I worked for regularly ditched office PCs and gave them to us.
I always kept the SATA drives and RAM, and took the rest of the PCs back,
ad threw it in their bins.
Now I got a USB SATA adapter and was able to boot straight to a Ubuntu install
from one of the HDDs connected with USB.
So it appears the Mac doesn't care what it runs, but will only help you install
Windows 7 or 8.
This Ubuntu install was done for another clone PC, so why not set up a
Windows XP, or other unsupported op system that way, and always boot from
the USB HDD?
Cheers, Art.
THe last company I worked for regularly ditched office PCs and gave them to us.
I always kept the SATA drives and RAM, and took the rest of the PCs back,
ad threw it in their bins.
Now I got a USB SATA adapter and was able to boot straight to a Ubuntu install
from one of the HDDs connected with USB.
So it appears the Mac doesn't care what it runs, but will only help you install
Windows 7 or 8.
This Ubuntu install was done for another clone PC, so why not set up a
Windows XP, or other unsupported op system that way, and always boot from
the USB HDD?
Cheers, Art.