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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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* Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> [14/09/11 16:33]: |
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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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> |
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> - Grant |
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