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> Hi, |
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> I don't have a Macbook Air, but I have two iMac desktops and one macbook |
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> pro laptop. The two imacs run Gentoo without any problems. I installed |
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> refit to switch between Gentoo and osx. |
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> For the laptop, I had trouble booting from the installation cd. A few |
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> days ago someone on this list suggested that I run Gentoo within a |
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> virtual machine running on osx. This turned out to be a very good |
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> solution, since it is very easy and works perfectly (I do have a small |
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> network problem, but not serious), and allows me to use the Mac software |
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> as well. I use virtualbox for the VM software. |
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> Best, |
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> Moshe |
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Thanks Moshe. Maybe the best thing for me to do is just install |
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Gentoo on the thing and see what happens. Restoring OSX should be |
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easy with the included USB key. I think that's the best way to figure |
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out if there are any quirks. Just follow the regular install method, |
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right? |
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- Grant |
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>> My wife can't stand the OS on her Macbook Air any more and has asked |
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>> me to install Gentoo. I did some research and it looks like there are |
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>> some hidden pitfalls. It seems to depend on which version of the |
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>> Macbook Air you have (my wife's is the version right before the new |
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>> backlit keyboard version) but at least some versions require that you |
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>> first boot into Mac OSX and then reboot into Linux, and there appear |
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>> to be a myriad of other gotchas. Does anyone know more about this? |
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>> - Grant |
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