Linux on Mac book pro (intel)?

Handyman · Last edited by Handyman on Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:41 pm; edited 1 time in total

I would like to do a dual boot with osx and Linux. Is there a distro that hasworked out an easy install for the new intel macs. I have heard that it is a bear to install. I perfer debian based distros.

tony

why dont you just install osx and then install linux using a distro like arch which is packaged w/ grub. that way you can dual-boot using grub.

simplyw00x

You can use bootcamp to install a regular x86 distro (normal grub won't work due to a new boot-up system).

Or take a look at http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page.

There's a lso an effort to get this to work on Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=812599

Hope these helps.

Xeniczone

You would need boot-camp. Even though it says it is for Windows it should work for Linux. You can't just install linux because linux will look for a Bios that your Mac Book will not have.

simplyw00x