Hey Ian, apparently you can burn the ISO to USB� and boot off that if he wants to try it on the mac. He just holds the "Option" key down on boot and chooses the USB. He'd be better with a 64-bit ISO if he has a newer mac though.
I'll double-check if 12.04 works nicely today.

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On 17 May 2012 17:42, Roderick Aldridge <rod-a@hnpl.net> wrote:
On 17/05/12 15:56, Ian Stewart wrote:
PS: One Councillor asked me if he'd be able to use the ubuntu 12.04 i386 desktop CD on his Mac. I told him that I was not knowledgeable on Mac's and I'd get back to him. I see there's this...

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleIntelInstallation

...on installing ubuntu on Mac's that use intel chipset. I'm not sure if I'd like to recommend he gives this a go unless he's 100% sure his Mac has no data on it. Maybe I'll suggest he comes along to a wlug Saturday workshop and hopefully someone is there that's done this sort of thing on Mac's.