So I decided to download the isos for three 64 bit isos via BitTorrent. I'm then going to leave it running. I may be able to help the Ubuntu community by uploading for as long as possible.
Here's the link to the Ubuntu site with the torrent links.
-P
Thursday 29 April 2010
Friday 23 April 2010
Upgrading to Snow Leopard and Ubuntu Lucid Linx?
I've been updating our office Macs to Snow Leopard and since I'm the only one that's running Linux via Bootcamp I am the guinea pig for the upgrade to Snow Leopard.
What did I discover? When you initially prep a "Windows" partition using Bootcamp, it leaves a little bit of space between your OS X and your new partition. It turns out that this space is needed to run the OS X Installer/Upgrader. I however didn't know that at the time and so I wiped that space and used the whole empty space to create two partition (/ and swap). When I tried to upgrade it failed and therefore I had to spend about 3-4 hours of my day resizing my Linux partition to allow for the upgrader to run.
By the way, I booted into a Linux Live CD (Ubuntu 9.10) that I had handy and ran gparted which worked like magic. However, I also ran into the issue where Grub wasn't able to boot and instead only got to "Grub". I managed to fix that too with the Live CD and everything is great. I can boot into Snow Leopard if I have to and use Ubuntu on my daily basis.
Now comes Lucid Linx. How smoothly will that upgrade go! I don't know, but I can't wait to try it out.
-P
What did I discover? When you initially prep a "Windows" partition using Bootcamp, it leaves a little bit of space between your OS X and your new partition. It turns out that this space is needed to run the OS X Installer/Upgrader. I however didn't know that at the time and so I wiped that space and used the whole empty space to create two partition (/ and swap). When I tried to upgrade it failed and therefore I had to spend about 3-4 hours of my day resizing my Linux partition to allow for the upgrader to run.
By the way, I booted into a Linux Live CD (Ubuntu 9.10) that I had handy and ran gparted which worked like magic. However, I also ran into the issue where Grub wasn't able to boot and instead only got to "Grub". I managed to fix that too with the Live CD and everything is great. I can boot into Snow Leopard if I have to and use Ubuntu on my daily basis.
Now comes Lucid Linx. How smoothly will that upgrade go! I don't know, but I can't wait to try it out.
-P
Friday 22 January 2010
A short FAQ
So you've decided you're going to install Linux and want to know a few things.
Q. Will Ubuntu run on my MacBook (MacBook Pro)?
A. Yes, you can run it without making any major changes. You just install it with and the drivers you need and it works great.
Q. What about my iPhone/iPod? Can I sync those?
A. No. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to do that right now. Apple uses a hash database for the videos and music and this hash isn't known at this time (Jan 22/2009.) There are work arounds though. You can sync mail, calendars and contacts using Google Apps. You can boot into OS X every time you want to use iTunes - it's worth keeping the OS X partition around, even if you make it really small, so that you can apply Apple firmware upgrade to the MacBook and iPhone.
Q. How do I resize the Mac OS X partition so I can install Linux?
A. You use an application called Boot Camp Assistant which is free and installed with Leopard and Snow Leopard. It is located in /Applications/Utilities/ (Or use Cmd-Shift-U.) When you run it, it'll ask you how you want the partition split for Windows. You can resize it however you want, but I recommend leaving some growing space for OS X (at least 10Gigs.) Once you have this, it'll resize the partition and ask you to reboot to do some checks or for you to install Windows. You can then install Linux and partition the remaining free space into a swap partition and your linux parition(s).
Q. Does everything work?
A. As far as I can tell, yes. I use Bluetooth for a keyboard and mouse, wifi, I've used firewire to connect hard drives as well as usb. The built in iSight works too. So far I can't seem to find anything that doesn't work.
Q. Are there any repositories I should add in addition to the standard ones?
A. I've installed the mactel-support one: http://ppa.launchpad.net/mactel-support/ubuntu.
I hope this helps and when I find more questions I'll post them here.
Note: These questions were asked while I was in the #Ubuntu-uk IRC Channel (by "kjs") and decided to answer them there. However, I decided that these questions would be worthy of an FAQ.
-P
Q. Will Ubuntu run on my MacBook (MacBook Pro)?
A. Yes, you can run it without making any major changes. You just install it with and the drivers you need and it works great.
Q. What about my iPhone/iPod? Can I sync those?
A. No. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to do that right now. Apple uses a hash database for the videos and music and this hash isn't known at this time (Jan 22/2009.) There are work arounds though. You can sync mail, calendars and contacts using Google Apps. You can boot into OS X every time you want to use iTunes - it's worth keeping the OS X partition around, even if you make it really small, so that you can apply Apple firmware upgrade to the MacBook and iPhone.
Q. How do I resize the Mac OS X partition so I can install Linux?
A. You use an application called Boot Camp Assistant which is free and installed with Leopard and Snow Leopard. It is located in /Applications/Utilities/ (Or use Cmd-Shift-U.) When you run it, it'll ask you how you want the partition split for Windows. You can resize it however you want, but I recommend leaving some growing space for OS X (at least 10Gigs.) Once you have this, it'll resize the partition and ask you to reboot to do some checks or for you to install Windows. You can then install Linux and partition the remaining free space into a swap partition and your linux parition(s).
Q. Does everything work?
A. As far as I can tell, yes. I use Bluetooth for a keyboard and mouse, wifi, I've used firewire to connect hard drives as well as usb. The built in iSight works too. So far I can't seem to find anything that doesn't work.
Q. Are there any repositories I should add in addition to the standard ones?
A. I've installed the mactel-support one: http://ppa.launchpad.net/mactel-support/ubuntu.
I hope this helps and when I find more questions I'll post them here.
Note: These questions were asked while I was in the #Ubuntu-uk IRC Channel (by "kjs") and decided to answer them there. However, I decided that these questions would be worthy of an FAQ.
-P
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