Re: [orca-list] installing linux on the mac

["mattias" <mj mjw se>]

eh what?
1 insert the cd with linux
2 install
3 boot
or what?
now i meen replace mac with ubuntu
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michael weaver" <weavermicha googlemail com>
To: "Brent Harding" <bharding doorpi net>; <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] installing linux on the mac


> i think you are right on this point.  there is something about how the boot 
> up process is different on the mac than the pc and there is a tool you have 
> to run which changes the system before you can run ubuntu.
> i myself have never used vmware as you have to use it to create space for 
> a vertual hard drive and i have not waanted to mess up a computer trying 
> to get it right with the space i wanted to use.
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brent Harding" <bharding doorpi net
> > To: <orca-list gnome org
> > Date sent: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:07:10 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] installing linux on the mac
>
> >    I thought there was some boot loader or utility that does
> something with
> > the partitioning that you have to boot up with to do it.  I
> forget the name
> > though as I wanted to try it as well because VM's always gave
> noise instead
> > of speech and the like.
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "michael weaver" <weavermicha googlemail com
> > To: <orca-list gnome org
> > Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 1:24 PM
> > Subject: [orca-list] installing linux on the mac
>
>
> > >  hi james austin.
> > > i was going to install ubuntu on my mac.
> > > i read something about doing it only it recommends you keep mac
> > > osx as that updates the mac hardware i think.
> > > also the mac uses a different format for hard drives than a pc
> > > and i think you have to use a tool to create a linux file system
> > > on the space on the drive you wish to use for linux which sounds
> > > rather complicated.
> > > as far as i know you can't just do the normal procedure for
> > > installing ubuntu by just popping in a ubuntu cd, running ubuntu
> > > using the standard procedure you might just do on a pc and hope
> > > to just install it as i don't believe it will just work this way
> > > for you just to use the standard installation and just choose to
> > > use the free space on your drive which you might just be able to
> > > do on a pc with windows because from what i have read, macs
> don't
> > > work that way because of the format that osx uses.
> > > perhaps someone might be able to clarify this and tell me if i
> am
> > > wrong because i was looking into doing this myself.
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