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I recently got access to an older MacBook Air (from 2008 or so). The |
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model number is A1237, it brings a Core2Duo CPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB hdd ... |
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So I got motivated and installed refind as a help to boot from |
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live-media (USB-stick as there is no cdrom) ... in turn resized the |
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hfs-partition and transplanted some gentoo-installation in there. |
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I am pretty much satisfied with my efforts so far: |
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refind lets me chose GRUB2 ... ok, I somehow managed to configure it in |
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a way so that it does not find its grub.cfg yet. Call it a security |
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feature ;-) -> I have to manually tell it where to read that file every |
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time booting ... I will figure out. |
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After that I can boot gentoo and in turn also Gnome-3.8 ... fine. |
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Does anyone of you gentoo-users also run gentoo on such a hardware? |
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my todos are (for now): |
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* I only got the harddisk detected via IDE/PATA (so it is hda and not |
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sda now). It should be accessible via AHCI as well, but that didn't work |
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yet (and I expect some more performance via AHCI). |
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* Sound via pulseaudio: not there yet ... no errors, devices displayed |
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correctly, but no sound. |
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* suspend to ram in gnome: got to check that |
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* right clicks with touchpad |
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... yes, sure, it's not the most powerful hardware anymore but it might |
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be some inbetween-device for me: better to write and surf than my |
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tablets ... but lighter and easier to carry than my thinkpad. |
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And it's fun to run gentoo on it ;-) |
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Stefan |
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