Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Mac Mini Intel

2006-03-10 Thread Michael George
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 11:29:39AM +0100, Antoine wrote: > > I believe the idea was that you can do just that - dual boot with > whatever you want for x86. The inverse - installing intel osx on a > non-mac machine is not going to be possible (or at least probably not > legal). While it's not l

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Mac Mini Intel

2006-03-04 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Christoph Eckert wrote: Hi all, I'm interested in buying an Intel Mac Mini. Qestions: * Will Gentoo run on it? Sooner or later I am sure it will :) * If so: Which installer is the right one (sorry I'm not that familiar with processor hardware)? there are no ready-made yet I dont t

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Mac Mini Intel

2006-03-04 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi Antoine, > I believe the idea was that you can do just that - dual boot with > whatever you want for x86. I guess it depends on GRUB and if it can install so it is found by the Mac Mini BIOS. > The inverse - installing intel osx on a > non-mac machine is not going to be possible (or at lea

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Mac Mini Intel

2006-03-04 Thread Antoine
And dual booting should be possible, it was always possible with the old apples. I hope Apple didn't do some magic to prevent installation of other OSes like Mac OS X. Anyway, I guess I will give it a try. I believe the idea was that you can do just that - dual boot with whatever you wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Mac Mini Intel

2006-03-04 Thread Christoph Eckert
HI Rick, > Yes, Gentoo should run on it. > Use the plain x86 installer. that's good news :) . > The only problem might be the new type of bios that is in the intel > mac series, I'm not sure how well it is supported by linux. > > I haven't seen any positive or negative messages about running li

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Mac Mini Intel

2006-03-03 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Friday 03 March 2006 20:05, Christoph Eckert wrote: > Hi all, > > > I'm interested in buying an Intel Mac Mini. > > Qestions: > > * Will Gentoo run on it? > > * If so: Which installer is the right one (sorry I'm not that familiar > with processor hardware)? > > * Can it dual boot with the instal

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Mac Mini Intel

2006-03-03 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi all, I'm interested in buying an Intel Mac Mini. Qestions: * Will Gentoo run on it? * If so: Which installer is the right one (sorry I'm not that familiar with processor hardware)? * Can it dual boot with the installed Mac OS? Thanks & best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailin