On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:57 -0700, "Carrie Hirsch" <culturperc at yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > A little while ago, someone on this list stated that they were running > Ubuntu smoothly on their cube. I wish to do the same, or better yet, run > ubuntu on a hd where the optical drive currently is & Tiger on the other > hd. My employer who is an ubuntu specialist suggests that this is > possible & that there might be an early bios screen that will ask me on > startup each time which os & hd I wish to boot to. Anyone have ideas > here? Carrie Hirsch & yes I am crazy in Chicago. Never istalled Ubuntu (I did a PPC version of Debian though which I can recommend!). In short, yes, you can do a dual boot (OS X and Linux) on the same machine. The best way to start should be Ubuntu Docs where the whole install process is described, including how to dual boot.