Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 on a new Mac Mini? no CD Driver?

2010-12-07 Thread Bob Arnold
On 12/6/10 3:54 PM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: Hi All, I am attempting to install CentOS 5.5 64 bit on my new Mac Mini. I boot to the CD and when I get to selecting where I am installing from (local cd, hard disk, ftp, etc) I select Local CD and it cannot find a driver and wants me to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 on a new Mac Mini? no CD Driver?

2010-12-07 Thread Nataraj
You need to install and use Apple's Boot Camp to make CentOS work on a Mac Mini. It will install a utility on the drive that will make the Mini look like an ordinary system instead of the Apple based hardware including standard drivers for the Cd/DVD and hard drives and network and sound

[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 on a new Mac Mini? no CD Driver?

2010-12-06 Thread Jason T. Slack-Moehrle
Hi All, I am attempting to install CentOS 5.5 64 bit on my new Mac Mini. I boot to the CD and when I get to selecting where I am installing from (local cd, hard disk, ftp, etc) I select Local CD and it cannot find a driver and wants me to manually specify or use a driver disk. I ave no idea

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 on a new Mac Mini? no CD Driver?

2010-12-06 Thread Jason T. Slack-Moehrle
OK, my problems get worse. I connected an external USB DVD Drive and that worked. Now, however, no hard disks are recognized I was really hoping to run CentOS on this machine, but I guess back to Snow Leopard Server I go On Dec 6, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: Hi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 on a new Mac Mini? no CD Driver?

2010-12-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, December 06, 2010 03:54:15 pm Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: Hi All, I am attempting to install CentOS 5.5 64 bit on my new Mac Mini. I boot to the CD and when I get to selecting where I am installing from (local cd, hard disk, ftp, etc) I select Local CD and it cannot find a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 on a new Mac Mini? no CD Driver?

2010-12-06 Thread Keith Keller
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 06:43:38PM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: On Monday, December 06, 2010 03:54:15 pm Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: I am attempting to install CentOS 5.5 64 bit on my new Mac Mini. I boot to the CD and when I get to selecting where I am installing from (local cd, hard

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 on a new Mac Mini? no CD Driver?

2010-12-06 Thread Jason T. Slack-Moehrle
Hi Keith, As a test, you might consider getting a Fedora 14 live CD and see if it can find the drives. If so, it may be the same issue. It's possible that the release version of RHEL 6 supports it, if you can get hold of it to test it, or you may just want to put Fedora 14 on it if the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 on a new Mac Mini? no CD Driver?

2010-12-06 Thread Keith Keller
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 04:19:43PM -0800, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: I just know CentOS really. Can I adapt easily? I assume things like yum and apache conf, etc are the same? You know just as much about Fedora as I do! ;-) If I'm able to make time to install it to my MBP, it'll be my