Yesterday I ubgraded 'The Thing' to Capitain. That was the longest 30
minutes of my life... It actually took about 6 hours.
I'm still amazed how hot this machine gets.
Thanks for these tips (specially the grub partition tip) I'm now making
notes and trying to figure how and what. I now think that i can figure
it out, or at least i know that i can keep OSX alive.
I really had no idea that OSX would throw up so many specific rules.
I'll keep the OSX as 1st partition
then place the 10MB partition for grub
And then the GNU/Linux stuff.
I'll burn El Capitain on a CD just in case i really mess up :-)
I hate what Mac does when you enter the display corners in Capitain that
combined with the weird touchpad behaviour causes a lot of
frustration...
I hope I can now make a cute LXDE based desktop on this Mac.
Thanks!
On 2016-09-03 16:17, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
Yep, Apple is a different world . . . personally right now I like 10.9
Mavericks over 10.11, as the graphics with 10.11 are flat and lifeless,
but, of course your preference.
I used Disk Utility on my MBPro to set up three partitions + the
Recovery
Disk; I have 10.6.8 as the default system, as Sno will still run some
Classic apps like Appleworks, formatted as "journaled, extended"; 10.9
in
the second partition +rEFInd; and now LM 18 running in the last
partition.
OSX goes in first **before*** any linux system, as it doesn't play well
with others. The linux partition should be formatted as "FAT32" or
possibly "Free" . . . and that should allow the deb installer to see
where
to install linux. I found that on the MBPro I had to use "manual" and
add
a small 10 MB partition labelled as "bios_grub" to get GRUB to install
properly . . . in front of the /home and . . . whatever it is, too
early,
the "swap" partitions . . . .
F
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:41 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2016-09-02 17:21, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 7:50 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm wondering if you are able to run the Lubuntu 16.04 Live
environment on
the MBP C2D
I will try 14.04 and 15.10 and see how that works.
I did have Lu 14 installed for awhile on it . . . all of the linux
OSs
run
"warmer" than OSX, so my experience varies from Aere's in that
respect. I
believe 16 is supposed to be "cooler" than 14 . . . .
I see that HH's link goes to an app that is for Linux 3.3?? but I
think
18
is now going to 4???
Indeed 16 has the kernel 4. So will upgrading actually be safe?
Best to try different OSs and see which one runs best. From time
spent on
the forums it seems a little "unusual" that just getting to the GRUB
window
caused overheating . . . also considering that Lubuntu is "light" and
easy
on specs . . . . Which leads me to again consider saying again that
I
have
LM on my MBPro . . . which is "ubuntu" with a nice veneer, pretty
well
worked out. Possibly LU 16 is still roughly "beta" . . . and the
code is
probably written for PC and not Apple. Running linux on an Apple is
still
pretty much a "fringe" concept . . . on my MBPro I had to use rEFInd
to
get
the system to boot up **after*** install--which is a "boot manager"
program. Search Google for "rodbooks" and it should show up . . .
site is
on Sourceforge.
As far as whether kernel 4 would be safe, newer is usually "better" .
. .
question is whether you could get HH's fan control daemon from the
repos .
. . and install it to the "live" session, before the core shut
down???
First step usually is boot the live DVD or USB and run it a bit, then
add
in fan control; but if you can't boot it beyond GRUB I would look to
other
options . . . . The MBPro should have enough juice to run something
more
than LU . . . I also like Ubuntu-MATE, which I'm running in PPC; but
in LM
I'm using the "MATE edition." "Cinnamon" pulls too much resources
for my
C2D . . . it's like "Sid" . . . in debian . . . . : - )
F
:) I still have a lot to learn. I just managed to fix the battery
charger (the current sensing resistor was fried) So this MBP now has
become
usefull again. I also want to do a clean install of OSX now that i
know
that El Capitain should run fine on this, There is an insane amount of
Adobe-ware leftovers in there and i thing all that crap is using up
resources... I'm now reading up on how to make the partitions for
dual
boot. I never worked with OSX but i now see how apple managed to build
its
fan base.
The temperature rises in pre-boot on this MBP 3,1, For some reason it
is
cooler once Snowleopard is running.
The temp is stable when i arrive in Grub, but once i pick the Live
env.
and start to boot then i can feel the temp going up to a point that
the
blood in my left knee starts to boil then a message appears that it
shuts
down core=1.
This is with the 64bit Live...
I tried to boot the 32bit too but this is still not working for me.
Lubuntu and Ubuntu 16.04.1 32 bit that is.
I'm now letting the MBP rest for today, i'm happy to have fixed that
charger issue...
Tomorrow i'll dig some more in the Macbook posts on the ubuntu forum
and
on askbuntu.
I expected some learning curve, but it turns out to be an entire
different
world. Eventhough on the inside it just looks like any other Laptop.
The
100% aluminuim thermal mass is nice, but it should not use my blood as
cooling fluid. Thats EVIL!!
Thanks for all the non-Lubuntu info, i really appriciate it. All the
more
a good reason to figure out how to get Lubuntu running on this devil.
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