If the distro is on a "live" CD/DVD you can boot directly from your drive and play around without dealing with either boot camp or Fusion. On Mar 30, 2010, at 11:29 AM, 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 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
