I have a friend with an intel-based i-mac. He seems interested in trying linux. I assume fedora can be installed on Mac and it can also dualboot? The google info was a bit sketchy. Answers on this list tend to be far more precise.
GW.
On 07/01/2011 01:55 PM, Gary Waters wrote:
I have a friend with an intel-based i-mac. He seems interested in trying linux. I assume fedora can be installed on Mac and it can also dualboot? The google info was a bit sketchy. Answers on this list tend to be far more precise.
GW.
I tried doing this back in the day (2009), and it worked so-so. I have not tried with more recent releases of Fedora.
I opened a feature request on the issue, and I think you might be able to find some helpful in the discussion on that page:
On 07/01/2011 08:37 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
On 07/01/2011 01:55 PM, Gary Waters wrote:
I have a friend with an intel-based i-mac. He seems interested in trying linux. I assume fedora can be installed on Mac and it can also dualboot? The google info was a bit sketchy. Answers on this list tend to be far more precise.
GW.
I tried doing this back in the day (2009), and it worked so-so. I have not tried with more recent releases of Fedora.
I opened a feature request on the issue, and I think you might be able to find some helpful in the discussion on that page:
So, in a word, no... it is not a seemless, flawless, noobie-friendly, happy puppies dancing with butterflies endeavour with my friend not at risk of losing data and/or his OSX installation. ;-)
Why is it so difficult? Would this be a bios related restriction?\
GW
On 07/01/2011 02:48 PM, Gary Waters wrote:
On 07/01/2011 08:37 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
On 07/01/2011 01:55 PM, Gary Waters wrote:
I have a friend with an intel-based i-mac. He seems interested in trying linux. I assume fedora can be installed on Mac and it can also dualboot? The google info was a bit sketchy. Answers on this list tend to be far more precise.
GW.
I tried doing this back in the day (2009), and it worked so-so. I have not tried with more recent releases of Fedora.
I opened a feature request on the issue, and I think you might be able to find some helpful in the discussion on that page:
So, in a word, no... it is not a seemless, flawless, noobie-friendly, happy puppies dancing with butterflies endeavour with my friend not at risk of losing data and/or his OSX installation. ;-)
Why is it so difficult? Would this be a bios related restriction?\
GW
No, it is more like walking through a dinosaur-infested swamp after midnight without a flashlight.
To me, the underlying problem seems to be the Macs firmware. Among other things, I had to run a live version and manually set up the harddrives from the command line in order to get them working, before doing the main install (note that this was an old Mac from 2005, the firmware might have changed considerably with newer models). However, from what I remember, things worked rather fine after that...I can remember having problem with heat, fans and battery time, but that might not be an issue that is limited to the Mac (in fact, there is a special kernel module adapted to Apple machines).
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 07:55:00AM -0400, Gary Waters wrote:
I have a friend with an intel-based i-mac. He seems interested in trying linux. I assume fedora can be installed on Mac and it can also dualboot? The google info was a bit sketchy. Answers on this list tend to be far more precise.
If you have not seen this documentation already you might find it instructive:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleIntelInstallation
Alexander
On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 15:15 +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
On 07/01/2011 02:48 PM, Gary Waters wrote:
On 07/01/2011 08:37 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
On 07/01/2011 01:55 PM, Gary Waters wrote:
I have a friend with an intel-based i-mac. He seems interested in trying linux. I assume fedora can be installed on Mac and it can also dualboot? The google info was a bit sketchy. Answers on this list tend to be far more precise.
GW.
I tried doing this back in the day (2009), and it worked so-so. I have not tried with more recent releases of Fedora.
I opened a feature request on the issue, and I think you might be able to find some helpful in the discussion on that page:
So, in a word, no... it is not a seemless, flawless, noobie-friendly, happy puppies dancing with butterflies endeavour with my friend not at risk of losing data and/or his OSX installation. ;-)
Why is it so difficult? Would this be a bios related restriction?\
I am running F15 on my 2010 macbook air without problems. Even the wireless works with the staging drivers. I have to use the binary nvidia driver as the mba display needs dithering. I gave up on running F15 on the 2011 imac because after installation I could not get it to boot properly. That probably due to the linux partitions being out of reach for legacy grub. It runs just fine from the live CD.
Currently EFI booting on mac seems to be a hit and miss, it does not work for my on either the mba as the imac.
Moral of the story is with some careful disk partitioning and some work you should be able to run F15 on a mac.
Jurgen
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