Hi Simon I pretty much use Mac OS X on a daily-basis (I'm more a BSD than a Linux head TBH) despite working for the World's largest PC manufacturer ;)
I do also run both Windows and Linux as well on my Mac (I just select the best tool for each job at hand). Now-a-days I am mainly doing this through virtualisation, but going back a couple of years I used to run Ubuntu natively on a MacBook Pro using BootCamp. I know it worked in Tiger and Leopard, but I have no idea on Snow Leopard and Lion. As far as I know BootCamp is juat a boot loader that will get you through the EFI and then allow you to select the OS by holding down CTRL when you boot. Regards Jimmy -- Sent from the mobile device of James Blake On 26 Feb 2012, at 08:49, Terry Coles <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 19:04:20 [email protected] wrote: >> My name is Simon and I am a long time Mac user who has had it up to >> his eyeballs with Apple's general contempt of its customers. I have > > Hi Simon, welcome to DLUG. > >> In the meantime can I just ask: does anyone use Ubuntu (or any Linux >> distribution) on Mac hardware? I realize that it is far more common to >> run on a pc but as my Mac has an i386 processor I hope it shouldn't be >> too difficult (EFI versus BIOS issues notwithstanding). I am hoping to >> avoid using a dual boot set up as the HD I am looking at is limited in >> its capacity. > > I'm not aware of anyone in the group who is running Linux on Mac these days. > Many years ago, when Macs came with proper processors :-) , we had a member > who ran Yellow Dog, but I don't recall the subject of Macs coming up since. > > However, I note that there are a number of howto pages out on the web, > including this one: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook. This has > links > to specific information about MacBook versions, including the 4.1. I can't > vouch for how easy or difficult it is to do this, but I've always found the > Ubuntu online documentation to be pretty good. > > I note that the docs are slightly out of date, because the link mentioned > above only refers to installation of 10.10, (although the target talks about > 11.04). Even so, the actual installation instructions are via a further link > and are claimed to be generic. > > Let us know how you get on! > > -- > Terry Coles > 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
