Jon Grosshart, who is also on this list, has a very detailed thread on LinuxQuestions explaining how to install slack on a mac.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=496688 He also provides a live cd which you can download which should let you get started on the installation. http://jaguarlinux.com/pub/slackware/mactel-livecd/ I haven't tried his instructions though so I can't help you any more with this. Ubuntu is one of the most popular distributions now and its also easy(ier) to setup which is why most people probably use it instead of something like slack (which I'm also quite fond of). It seems like battery usage is much worse in Linux than in OS X right now. Also you will have to use the binary ATI drivers and ndiswrapper with a binary windows driver for your network card if you have a new Core 2 Duo mac. There are lots of instructions on various sites about how to do this on different distributions: http://www.odi.ch/prog/macbookpro/index.php https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacBookPro Good luck, Sheer On 1/23/07, Arwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I'm a newbie in this mailing list and, most of all, I'm a > newbie in mac-world. > Even if I use linux from 2000, I'm not very able with it, so I need > some help. I have a Slackware on my old pc (not mac), and I would like to > install slackare on my new MacBook too. > I divided my hard disk space with bootcamp, than I install rEFIt and > I start with the slack's dvd boot in order to finish the partition, > but... as soon as the dvd load the kernel, before starting the setup, > I get the message "no keyboard found". Someone can help me? > > Anyway, I see a lot of how-to talking about ubuntu on a macbook... > what is, in your opinion, the linux distribution that works > better? A friend of mine told me that linux on macintel use too much > the CPU. Is that right? What kind of problem can I cause to the > hardware if I use linux on my macbook? How can I avoid those problems? > > Many thanks, > > Arwan > -- > "Quelli come me, ovunque vadano, saranno sempre la metà di qualcosa. > Ma non il tutto." > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
