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It is done often. Writing this on an 24" Intel iMac running Gentoo w/ kde. |
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Just a few gotchas that I ran into: |
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1. The 2008.0 livecd's version of grub doesn't have the Mac partition patch. |
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Simple update of portage and then grub fixes this. |
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2. Nvidia binary drivers seem to have a bug that will turn off the screen |
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everytime you either close X11 or switch to a VC. The screen comes back on |
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when you go back to X by CTRL+Fn unless you have shutdown X11. If that is |
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the case, then you have to restart it by typing blindly or ssh'ing in from |
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another machine. I haven't found a fix for this yet. Not sure if this |
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pertains to the mac mini they might be using ATI. |
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Good info at: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Apple_Macbook_Pro |
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If you plan on installing to the hard drive I recommend keeping a small OSX |
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partition (for firmware updates and stuff from apple) and using rEFIt as a |
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boot manager. http://refit.sourceforge.net |
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This is how I have it set up and its working well. |
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On Friday 27 February 2009 02:21:37 pm Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> I'm considering attempting to set up an Intel Mac Mini as a |
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> MythTV frontend. Right now I'm thinking I'll leave the |
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> internal drive alone and boot from net or from a USB flash |
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> drive. That way I can spin down the internal HD and save on |
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> power and noise (and the standard OS-X install is still there, |
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> so it can be trivially switched back to normal desktop use). |
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> I've been googling for info on running Linux on a Mac Mini, and |
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> there was fairly active discussion 3-4 years ago, but very |
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> little recent info. That leads me to either of two |
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> conclusions: |
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> |
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> 1) It can't be done and everybody gave up. |
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> 2) It's so trivial that people no longer need to ask about it. |
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> So, how hard would it be to do a USB or network-based Gentoo |
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> install for a recent Intel Mac Mini? |