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 something.
If you tried it yourself, why don’t you comment here on how it went.
Chances are if you are seeing this, you’ve tried quite a bit but it hasn’t worked. Look no further. If you are seeing this and haven’t been researching it, then this should still be enough info to get a good start.
First, here’s the point: Using windows file sharing (Samba/SMB) is a good way to access your files across your home network, but don’t even think about trying it over the internet. In order to access SMB shares across the internet you’re going to need to get creative. A method which works reasonably well is using a zero-configuration VPN program such as Hamachi, Remobo, Wippen, etc. to create a virtual lan connecion, thus fooling your computer into connecting like you were on the same lan. That works, but in my experience it isn’t very reliable, it has limitations, it has overhead, and it means you have to have that ZCVPN client on both ends. So here’s my solution, skip the program, jump straight to the solution. If you use an SSH tunnel to connect to your computer, you can access your SMB shares, you can use VNC to view your screen, or do just about anything that uses a port on your host computer. The best part about it is, once you have it up and running, it’s really simple to use!
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