It is done often. Writing this on an 24" Intel iMac running Gentoo w/ kde. Just a few gotchas that I ran into:
1. The 2008.0 livecd's version of grub doesn't have the Mac partition patch. Simple update of portage and then grub fixes this. 2. Nvidia binary drivers seem to have a bug that will turn off the screen everytime you either close X11 or switch to a VC. The screen comes back on when you go back to X by CTRL+Fn unless you have shutdown X11. If that is the case, then you have to restart it by typing blindly or ssh'ing in from another machine. I haven't found a fix for this yet. Not sure if this pertains to the mac mini they might be using ATI. Good info at: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Apple_Macbook_Pro If you plan on installing to the hard drive I recommend keeping a small OSX partition (for firmware updates and stuff from apple) and using rEFIt as a boot manager. http://refit.sourceforge.net This is how I have it set up and its working well. On Friday 27 February 2009 02:21:37 pm Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm considering attempting to set up an Intel Mac Mini as a > MythTV frontend. Right now I'm thinking I'll leave the > internal drive alone and boot from net or from a USB flash > drive. That way I can spin down the internal HD and save on > power and noise (and the standard OS-X install is still there, > so it can be trivially switched back to normal desktop use). > > I've been googling for info on running Linux on a Mac Mini, and > there was fairly active discussion 3-4 years ago, but very > little recent info. That leads me to either of two > conclusions: > > 1) It can't be done and everybody gave up. > > 2) It's so trivial that people no longer need to ask about it. > > So, how hard would it be to do a USB or network-based Gentoo > install for a recent Intel Mac Mini?
