Installing Fedora Core on the Mac mini...

[Paul Nasrat]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 18:56 +0000, A. Savioli wrote:
> Hello there.
> Your article "Installing Fedora Core on the Mac mini" by Colin Charles is 
> pretty amazing and sounds just fine and easy. In fact I wish it would be 
> that simple...
> But, after trying a thousand times, I've given up installing my Fedora Core 
> 4 on my Mac mini. The reason: the mini WON'T boot from a DVD. (Specially a 
> DVD that has nothing to do with "Apple" stuff... I just read this from a 
> customer support page on Apple.)

I very much disbelieve this, but would have to play with the firmware to
see.

> So, my question is, could you please extend your article with a solution for 
> this problem? I know that I'm not alone on this.
> Thank you so much for your attention here.

On the dvd there is a boot.iso images/mac/boot.iso - copy that off the
DVD and burn as an image onto the CD (you can use diskutil to do this -
drag image into left hand pane and choose to burn it).

Paul