Quoth Colin Paul Adams on Boomtime, the 55th of The Aftermath:
> I tried step 3 alone and it works!
That's great news, Colin; installation is the easy part,
unfortunately.
Here's some things I haven't gotten working yet:
* wireless;
* sound.
If you make any progress there, please let us kno
> "Peter" == Peter Danenberg writes:
Peter> Quoth Colin Paul Adams on Sweetmorn, the 54th of The
Peter> Aftermath:
>> Can you sketch the details of this reformatting exercise
>> please?
Peter> I'm not sure if the formatting is, strictly speaking,
Peter> necessary; but
Quoth Colin Paul Adams on Sweetmorn, the 54th of The Aftermath:
> Can you sketch the details of this reformatting exercise please?
I'm not sure if the formatting is, strictly speaking, necessary; but
here's how I got Fedora 12 installed on the second-gen Air:
1. Used the Disk Utility on the OS
> "Peter" == Peter Danenberg writes:
>> Is there a way to install fedora on a Macbook air (as the sole
>> operating system)?
Peter> I'm currently using Fedora 11 as the sole OS on a
Peter> second-gen air; it involved, IIRC, booting with the OS X
Peter> installation disc a
> Is there a way to install fedora on a Macbook air (as the sole
> operating system)?
I'm currently using Fedora 11 as the sole OS on a second-gen air; it
involved, IIRC, booting with the OS X installation disc and
reformatting the drive with the Disk Utility prior to installing
Fedora.
I was jus
Colin> According to:
Colin> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EFI
Colin> "x86_64 installation | 99 | Install working now for Intel boxes, UEFI
> 2.1. Not working on MACs, untested on any other hardware platforms and
> likely to need further debug there."
>
> That "Not working on MACs" bit sugg
> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams writes:
> "Tom" == Tom H writes:
Colin> Does anyone know how to get F12 to boot from the macbook
Colin> Air, without resorting to Boot Camp (I can't afford the
Colin> disk space to have both Mac OSX and linux installed)?
Tom> I did some goog
> "Tom" == Tom H writes:
Colin> Does anyone know how to get F12 to boot from the macbook
Colin> Air, without resorting to Boot Camp (I can't afford the
Colin> disk space to have both Mac OSX and linux installed)?
Tom> I did some googling about this a while ago because a frien
Colin>> I'm having better luck with F12. I'm staring at the
Colin>> configure-disk-partitions option screen, and wandering if I
Colin>> dare change the hfs+ volume to ext4 and proceed.
Colin> But although installation completed OK, I was not able to get it to
Colin> boot.
Colin> The first time I
> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams writes:
> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams writes:
> "Tom" == Tom H writes:
But how to get the Air to try to boot from the USB port?
Tom> Try booting with "c" pressed (it is supposed to be for
Tom> CDs/DVDs but it might work with a bootable
> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams writes:
> "Tom" == Tom H writes:
>>> But how to get the Air to try to boot from the USB port?
Tom> Try booting with "c" pressed (it is supposed to be for
Tom> CDs/DVDs but it might work with a bootable external drive
Colin> I actually meant
> "Tom" == Tom H writes:
>> But how to get the Air to try to boot from the USB port?
Tom> Try booting with "c" pressed (it is supposed to be for
Tom> CDs/DVDs but it might work with a bootable external drive
I actually meant with a DVD drive, but probably forgot to say that in
m
> But how to get the Air to try to boot from the USB port?
Try booting with "c" pressed (it is supposed to be for CDs/DVDs but it
might work with a bootable external drive or with
"Command-Option-Shift-Delete" (it may not work with Intel Macs like
the Air though).
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On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Colin Paul Adams
wrote:
> > "Dan" == Dan Burkland writes:
>
>Dan> I don't personally own a MacBook Air however I'm sure you
>Dan> could make a bootable USB drive and install Fedora from that.
>
> I don't have a USB stick of sufficient size. I do howeve
> "Dan" == Dan Burkland writes:
Dan> I don't personally own a MacBook Air however I'm sure you
Dan> could make a bootable USB drive and install Fedora from that.
I don't have a USB stick of sufficient size. I do however have a USB
disk drive which works fine with it.
But how to get
t: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 10:04 AM
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Subject: Fedora on Macbook Air?
Is there a way to install fedora on a Macbook air (as the sole
operating system)?
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