Bootcamp just resizes the partitions. It doesn't have anything to do
with booting another OS.

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If you go to http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page and check the
right hand side of the page, it looks like the site are building a
custom live CD for this purpose. I haven't tried it myself but I think
it'd be a better bet than another distro.

K,

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 04:28 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have not tried any live distro,
> but my guess is that first you need to prepare your mac mini,
> namely to update the firmware and to install bootcamp.
> 
> hth,
> Jerome
> 
> Klaus-Dieter Schimpf wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > can anybody recommend a live distro for the mac mini?
> > 
> > I tried:
> > Ubuntu 5.10     - x-server won't start
> > Ubuntu 6.06     - stopps at 'Loading stage2 ...'
> > Mandriva 2006   - no mouse support
> > Kanotix         - no mouse support
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > Klaus
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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