While I haven't installed Linux under VMWare, I would think that would
be easier than doing it via bootcamp. A lot of the setup for linux seems
to revolve around partitioning and bootup setup, usually assuming that
Linux is the only thing running on the box. While it's possible to set
things up just right to make a multi-boot machine, a virtual machine
gives the appearance that it's a dedicated piece of hardware, so no
accidentally mangling the wrong partition and such. You also have the
advantage that you can access online docs and such on the mac side and
then just flip to vmware to try stuff rather than going all-in with a
boot cycle into Linux. Plus you can use vmware's snapshots to keep a
working instance to fall back in case the experiment fails. Worst case
is you just take the virtual machine file and put it in the trash. To
add to the fun, you can even find pre-installed unix virtual machines
which you can just download and use.
CB
On 1/28/15 2:28 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote:
Hi!
Search google for this.
I think there are workarounds.
/A
27 jan 2015 kl. 16:01 skrev Erik Heil <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Hello,
Wondeful suggestion, though with Bootcamp, you'll have to repartition
the drive, wich IMHO is overkill for this situation. So, it looks
like VMware is the easiest way to accomplish this task. Not to
mention, its a lot quicker. That's if Linux is even supported in a
Bootcamp environment. As I recall, its designed to aid the
installation of Windows, and we don't know if it modifies the system
EFI partition. Simply too many unknowns.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Joanne Chua <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
What about just install it to bootcam instead?
How often that you need to run Linux and Mac OS side by side...
Just my thoughts
Regards
Joanne
On 28/01/2015, Erik Heil <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hello again,
> FFirst of all, thanks for all the responses to my other
questions. Really
>
> helped a lot
> I was thinking of trying to get a full-blown GNOME desktop
environment
> running on this machine, as I am familiar with that
environment. Doing some
>
> research, I can see that their is an open source version of the
Xorg X11
> Window system that I can install. Ideally, I would love the
greatest and
> latest stuff viable from the GNOME Project which at present, is
Gnome
> 3.4.X. However, I think we have some problems. If I'm wrong
in these
> assumptions, feel free to correct me where necessary. If
memory serves,
> GNOME 3.x has some dependencies on systems, which is
Linux-specific. That
> is, their is at present, no BSD-compatible system
implementation. I don't
> believe that system needs to be running, however I do believe
that core
> system library functions are now dependencies. Does it make
sense to
> install a copy of VMware Fusion and install a copy of Debian
into the guest
>
> VM? If I do go this route, is their anything I need to be
concerned about
> in Fusion specifically? Note that I have a license for VMware
Workstation.
>
> Will I have to purchase an additional license for Fusion?
> Second question
> Does it make sense to install the GNU-specific tools? In my
opinion, they
> are simply just better than the implementations provided by
BSD. I could
> install them out of the way, into for example, /usr/local/bin,
as that way,
>
> it won't conflict with software that is under version control
via whatever
> package management system that OS X uses to manage updates.
>
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