installing Fedora 21 or 22 on a MacBook Air 7,1

[Frederic Muller]

On 07/29/2015 08:07 PM, CS DBA wrote:
> I installed Fedora 20 on a macbook air like this:
> 
> 1) burned the KDE live dvd,
> 
> 2) plugged the dvd player into the mac usb port
> 
> 3) held down the option button while I boot the macbook
> 
> 4) when it comes up with the boot options choose the Fedora DVD (it
> takes a few min before it shows up)
> 
> 5) boot off the DVD, then do the install to disk as normal
> 
> 

Sorry if my email wasn't clear enough: there is no disk to install
Fedora to. The SSD drive is simply invisible.

Fred.

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> 
> 
> On 07/29/2015 06:13 AM, Frederic Muller wrote:
>> On 07/29/2015 07:01 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 04:41:04PM +0700, Frederic Muller wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I have been struggling installing Fedora on a friend's MBA as the local
>>>> SSD doesn't seem to be recognized. I found a few posts online with
>>>> various degrees of luck, unfortunately they never mentioned with MBA is
>>>> used and that didn't work for me.
>>> I'm not a Mac user, but knowing what you tried might give others some
>>> ideas what you could try.
>>>
>> Well unfortunately there is not much thing to try as the disk is simply
>> invisible. So I have tried a lot of web searches for one ;-) and also
>> other distro install with even less success (screen simply didn't even
>> display text, so I couldn't get very far - maybe that was a problem with
>> the intel HD graphics 6000 drivers?).
>>
>> And so to directly answer your question:
>> 1. create USB key to boot from
>> 2. Boot from EFI disk
>> 3. Try to find the disk when ask to chose a disk to install: and here it
>> only sees the USB key.
>>
>> Thank you for the follow up.. i feel so :-/
>>
>> Fred
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