Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?

2009-07-28 Thread Josef Lowder
I'm considering purchasing a Macbook and would like to know if it can dual-boot with most Linux distros. And/or does anyone have experience running Linux in a Virtual box or VM ware setup on a Macbook? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?

2009-07-28 Thread Eric Cope
I have run virtual box versions of Ubuntu and Windows on my older Macbook pro without issues. Eric On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Josef Lowder j...@actionline.com wrote: I'm considering purchasing a Macbook and would like to know if it can dual-boot with most Linux distros. And/or does

Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?

2009-07-28 Thread David
On Jul 27, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Josef Lowder wrote: I'm considering purchasing a Macbook and would like to know if it can dual-boot with most Linux distros. And/or does anyone have experience running Linux in a Virtual box or VM ware setup on a Macbook?

Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?

2009-07-28 Thread Lisa Kachold
I have seen entire teams of developers running QA development versions of their production environments in a VM on Macbook Pros. On 7/28/09, David da...@damnetwork.net wrote: On Jul 27, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Josef Lowder wrote: I'm considering purchasing a Macbook and would like to know if it

Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?

2009-07-28 Thread Stephen
Yes it can however you need to be really careful with partitioning and use bootcamp and ref-it to make it go around nicely this also kind of means your cramming your whole install into a single parition rather than being able to make a swap/boot/root gracefully. aside from that it runs great On

Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?

2009-07-28 Thread Ryan Rix
Stephen wrote: Yes it can however you need to be really careful with partitioning and use bootcamp and ref-it to make it go around nicely this also kind of means your cramming your whole install into a single parition rather than being able to make a swap/boot/root gracefully. EFI

Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?

2009-07-28 Thread Stephen
no it just will just get totally effed up when you boot OSX and they try to fix the partition table... On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Ryan Rixphrkonale...@gmail.com wrote: Stephen wrote: Yes it can however you need to be really careful with partitioning and use bootcamp and ref-it to make