Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?
I'm considering purchasing a Macbook and would like to know if it can dual-boot with most Linux distros. And/or does anyone have experience running Linux in a Virtual box or VM ware setup on a Macbook? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?
I have run virtual box versions of Ubuntu and Windows on my older Macbook pro without issues. Eric On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Josef Lowder j...@actionline.com wrote: I'm considering purchasing a Macbook and would like to know if it can dual-boot with most Linux distros. And/or does anyone have experience running Linux in a Virtual box or VM ware setup on a Macbook? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Eric Cope http://cope-et-al.com --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?
On Jul 27, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Josef Lowder wrote: I'm considering purchasing a Macbook and would like to know if it can dual-boot with most Linux distros. And/or does anyone have experience running Linux in a Virtual box or VM ware setup on a Macbook? --- I've had my macbook and macbook pro dual boot with linux. I've also had them triple boot with WinXP, Redhat/Ubuntu and OS X. Read what you need to do at http://refit.sourceforge.net/ David I find your lack of faith disturbing. --Darth Vader --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?
I have seen entire teams of developers running QA development versions of their production environments in a VM on Macbook Pros. On 7/28/09, David da...@damnetwork.net wrote: On Jul 27, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Josef Lowder wrote: I'm considering purchasing a Macbook and would like to know if it can dual-boot with most Linux distros. And/or does anyone have experience running Linux in a Virtual box or VM ware setup on a Macbook? --- I've had my macbook and macbook pro dual boot with linux. I've also had them triple boot with WinXP, Redhat/Ubuntu and OS X. Read what you need to do at http://refit.sourceforge.net/ David I find your lack of faith disturbing. --Darth Vader --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- (623)239-3392 (503)754-4452 www.obnosis.com --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?
Yes it can however you need to be really careful with partitioning and use bootcamp and ref-it to make it go around nicely this also kind of means your cramming your whole install into a single parition rather than being able to make a swap/boot/root gracefully. aside from that it runs great On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Josef Lowderj...@actionline.com wrote: I'm considering purchasing a Macbook and would like to know if it can dual-boot with most Linux distros. And/or does anyone have experience running Linux in a Virtual box or VM ware setup on a Macbook? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?
Stephen wrote: Yes it can however you need to be really careful with partitioning and use bootcamp and ref-it to make it go around nicely this also kind of means your cramming your whole install into a single parition rather than being able to make a swap/boot/root gracefully. EFI disklabels ftw, right? right? :D? Ryan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?
no it just will just get totally effed up when you boot OSX and they try to fix the partition table... On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Ryan Rixphrkonale...@gmail.com wrote: Stephen wrote: Yes it can however you need to be really careful with partitioning and use bootcamp and ref-it to make it go around nicely this also kind of means your cramming your whole install into a single parition rather than being able to make a swap/boot/root gracefully. EFI disklabels ftw, right? right? :D? Ryan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
