[CS-FSLUG] Ubuntu on (or not) MacBook

[Timothy Butler]

On Nov 4, 2008, at 11:56 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote:

> Jason P. Franklin wrote:
>> Having a booger of a time getting Ubuntu on my MacBook.  After
>> installation (which supposedly works - no error messages), reboot  
>> produces
>> Apple's missing file icon.  No OS.  I'm thinking something's wonky  
>> with
>> partitions, but I don't know enough.  Any thoughts (or experiences
>> installing Linux on an Intel CoreDuo MacBook)?
>
> Time can help you...I think. I just dumped KUbuntu 8.10 from this
> desktop tonight, after 2 days of grief. openSUSE 11.1 beta 4 is better
> behaved than KB's gold code.

	Unfortunately, I'm not much help, since I'm still using PPC machines  
and have not yet had an Intel Mac to try installing Linux on. If it  
were mine, I'd probably try to completely redo the partition structure  
using fdisk, though. I'm not sure if Linux's fdisk is compatible with  
EFI and what it expects as far as MBR layout, etc., however.

	Jason, you might ask over on Mac-Min. Are you on there?

	-Tim


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