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Robert J. King schrieb: |
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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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>> 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? |
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. |
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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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A: Top-posting. |
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