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color=#0000ff size=2>Do infrequent reboots mean you spend more time in MacOS or
more time in Ubuntu? ;-D</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>-Nate</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> cialug-bounces@cialug.org
[mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Matthew
Nuzum<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, December 04, 2009 10:10 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Central
Iowa Linux Users Group<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Cialug] distro for
ibook<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>2009/12/4 Brandon Griffis <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:brandongriffis@gmail.com">brandongriffis@gmail.com</A>></SPAN><BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">We're
about to get a macbook pro in at my office (intel based). Anything to
know about putting linux on it? Does gparted work just as well for
resizing the OSX partition or do I need to use something else to be
safe? Does grub work on Macbooks or do I need a different boot
loader?<BR><BR>I suppose, basically, will linux install on the Macbook Pro
the same as it does on any PC (HP, Dell, Toshiba) laptop running Windows or
is there something to know or do differently in the
process?<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>I've got a macbook pro and it runs
Ubuntu great. Use bootcamp to create the partition. It will name it "Windows."
Ignore most of the instructions Mac OS gives you. Boot off the Ubuntu CD and
isntall into the free space. When you want to reboot hold down the option key
while you turn the computer on and instead of botting into Mac OS it'll prompt
you to choose what partition to boot.<BR><BR>I've heard there's somethign
called ReFit (or similar) that gives you a boot menu. I've not used it since I
reboot quite infrequently.<BR><BR>There are detailed instructiosn for many
models here: <A
href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSupportTeam/CommunityHelpPages">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSupportTeam/CommunityHelpPages</A><BR><BR>The
most important thing I know of is to have ethernet networking handy since the
wifi chipset probably won't work out of the box. It uses broadcom or one of
those uncommonly supported chips.<BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Matthew
Nuzum<BR>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <A
href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</A> and twitter<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>