Have you played with any virtual appliances? I haven't tried this but
there are pre-configured VM images for lots of different OSes. You just
download and go. Worth giving it a try since it's free other than the
cost of VMWare itself.
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/cat/508?k=ubuntu&c=508
CB
Brent Harding wrote:
How do you install these without site on the Mac? Could I just use
Boot Camp and then toss in a linux disk and go? I know the
instructions I found on the Ubuntu say you have to use a certain
utility loaded from the boot loader that won't speak to sync the
partition table after installing or something, but is there now a way
around that? I thought they said it was a menu-based thing you have to
boot into. I tried one of the versions of Ubuntu awhile back using
Easyvmx's online utility that basically creates an empty virtual
machine for VMWare Player, but with heavy activity in the sense of a
lot of text being generated, Orca just locks, and I end up needing a
whole system restart as you can't kill it easily in this state either.
I think that's to do with the sound driver in VMWare, so I'd rather
try it the real way on my Macbook, but don't have the sighted help. Is
there an easy way?
----- Original Message ----- From: "James & Nash"
<james.austin1...@googlemail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: Burning ISO Images
Hi cdh
On 30 Mar 2010, at 15:07, Chris Hofstader wrote:
Recently, I have had to try out a number of different GNU/Linux
distros. I use Safari to download them from their web sites and then,
using disk utility, burn the DVD. I got this to work with the SpeakUp
Modified Fedora but all other downloads cause Disk Utility to crap
out on verification.
This is on a six month old MacBook Pro 13 which shouldn't have any
really bad problems yet.
I've found this too. Have you tried to reduce the burning speed to the
lowest possible speed for your machine? Sometimes for some reason when
DVDs etc are burned quickly, some sort of corruption takes place. This
makes me wonder why such speeds exist if corruption occurs after using
them.
HTH
TC
James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny
Hi,
Recently, I have had to try out a number of different GNU/Linux
distros. I use Safari to download them from their web sites and then,
using disk utility, burn the DVD. I got this to work with the SpeakUp
Modified Fedora but all other downloads cause Disk Utility to crap
out on verification.
This is on a six month old MacBook Pro 13 which shouldn't have any
really bad problems yet.
Any ideas?
cdh
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