The Sapience Society » dual boot http://blog.lococobra.com The advice of a self-proclaimed technological ninjician Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:41:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Installing Linux on a Mac, the hard wayhttp://blog.lococobra.com/installing-linux-on-a-mac-the-hard-way http://blog.lococobra.com/installing-linux-on-a-mac-the-hard-way#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:36:01 +0000 Jeff http://blog.lococobra.com/?p=16 I was going to make a post about this, but honestly I think this will be more useful.

It is possible.
Don't do it.
The end.

I tried it, and successfully booted Ubuntu 8.10 on my MacBook Pro. I'm sure if you look around you could find the same guide I used, but here's the verdict: It just didn't work very well. Drivers were buggy and mouse control was awful. I just didn't see any reason to keep it around, especially since OS X is such a close relative of Linux anyways. Unfortunately when I tried to remove it, the swap partition simply wouldn't budge. Trust me, I tried every possible method for reformatting that partition, but no dice. Long story short, I ended up reformatting the whole hard drive just to get everything back together. Many hours sunk, no progress made, NOT WORTH IT! You'll be better off putting it on your old windows box or just using virtualization.

If you tried it yourself, why don't you comment here on how it went.

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