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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: metad beta1 - amd64 macbook pro
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Lars Nooden |
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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: metad beta1 - amd64 macbook pro |
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Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:38:41 +0200 |
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Daniel Clark wrote:
> http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook#Debianinstallation
Thanks. I've used rEFIt before, but that page is still informative.
Bootloaders are not something I currently understand, but grub does work
with other distros so it should be solvable for gNewSense, too.
> It says EFI is only starting to be supported directly in
> squeeze, so it certainly wouldn't work "out of the box"
Not all set ups need it. I found I needed EFI only when a multiboot
setup included OS X. So gNewSense should use it.
> on metad 3, where upstream is lenny.
Etch may be an advantage. I found that lenny appears to suffer from
some problems. For example, I could not get lenny to install directly
on sparc (a t1000). Eventually I had to install etch first, then go via
distro upgrade. When I ran Debian on the amd64, it was etch, even after
Lenny was released, but I can't recall why.
I've used that machine for about 2.5 years. It's had a mixture of
OS X, Debian Etch, Ubuntu (8.04, 9.04, 9.10), and OpenBSD. Usually 3-4
months between changes. On some occasions it was dual boot Debian or
Ubuntu w/OpenBSD. On others it was triple boot, with OS X, too. Only
when OS X was there did I also need rEFIt.
/Lars
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released, (continued)
Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released, Lars Nooden, 2009/12/06
Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 - amd64 macbook pro, Lars Nooden, 2009/12/06
Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released, Lars Nooden, 2009/12/06