Having had a Mac Book Pro for about 2 weeks, I’ve been trying to get Fedora on it. Initially the reasoning was to get a live cd working (using Kadischi) and then hack anaconda to be able to install on to the Intel Macs. The biggest problem we had was to compile the Fedora kernel with the patches from the mactel-linux project.
Now that’s no longer needed. Today Apple released a firmware update that emulates BIOS in order to support their Windows install helper, Boot Camp. My first reaction was: OMG!
Right after that I tried to stick the Fedora Core 5 i386 install DVD and rebooted. The DVD got recognized as ‘Windows’ in the graphical boot menu, it then proceeded to boot the kernel, and start up anaconda. I had to quit it when it wanted to erase my hard drive because it was partitioned with GPT (GUID Partition Table). But now we have something much easier to work with.
Hurray!
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Did you have to do anything special to get anaconda to recognize your HDD? I keep getting “No valid devices where found on which to create new file systems” I would like to install FC5 on my firewire HDD.
No I didn’t do anything special, but I didn’t try with external harddrives. The wall I stopped at was when anaconda wanted to completely repartition my harddrive because I didn’t know how to work with GPT, and I haven’t had the time since to try and see how easy that would be to fix.
Can you run HD streams weel with this setup?
rEFIt - check it out, try installing with this
I had my Macbook Pro for less than a week and I’ll like to install Linux on it. I can see that you manage to do it. I need to run Oracle 10g after the installation (not posssible on Mac OS X, just in the server edition) It’s possible for yoo to help me on this matter? Thanks
Thank You
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