Ubuntu
For the very first time, I'm experiencing the Ubuntu way for real. I installed Ubuntu on my iBook, so now I'm dualbooting OS X and Ubuntu. Everything went smooth! Well, nearly.
Resizing HFS+ is a bitch. Only payware exists which does the job. When I had a look at it a few weeks ago, all torrents were old and with no seeders.
HOWEVER.
I suddenly came over a thread at the Ubuntu forums. parted could do the job!
So!
I disabled journaling on my drive:
cd /Volumes
sudo diskutil disableJournal Macintosh\ HD/
I had an Ubuntu Live CD(might be one of the last flights or the final one, not sure). I downloaded and burned a copy of the Ubuntu installation CD, but this obviously failed, somehow. The CD wouldn't boot(nor mount). I was not at home, had no more CDs. I booted off the Live CD, resized the HFS+-partition using parted and created new ones using gparted. So far so good.
I hit the "Install to disk" icon on my desktop. This went OK, but complained about yaboot and a bootable partition. After some hassle I had created a special Mac-bootable area using mac-fdisk(800K). I went to the installer again, but still complaining. I cancelled it and formatted the bootable 800K partition to HFS. The installer complained no more, and soon I was surfing the net in Ubuntu! Woo!
Booting back to OS X went fine :-)
So far:
I had downloaded the firmware in advance, so WLAN was OK with the live CD.
WLAN OK once installed too, though the driver seems a bit immature and WPA and such might be a bitch(is supported, but who knows). NetworkManager does not seem to cooperate well with bcm43xx(known issue), darn. Wifi-radar and command line tools works(and ndiswrapper is for x86, right?)
Sound, bluetooth and such all works fine. I've been sending stuff from my cell with no hassle and fancy GUIs asking me whether or not I wish to accept the file.
Sleep works fine! Slap, sleep. The mouse hung after a long period of sleep once, though. I've actually experienced this a couple of times with OS X earlier.
Direct rendering is not possible as far as I know.
The touchpad works as it's supposed to. I've configured it to scroll on the right side and with no tapping, as well as increasing the speed of the pointer. It's terribly slow by default(without configured synaptics driver and such) :-/
Function keys works(sound, brightness, eject). They're the opposite of OS X, though(F5=F5, Fn+F5=volume up).
It's also adjusting the CPU-speed automatically, but you know. Battery drains muchmuch faster than with OS X :-(
Yes, all?
Any tips for me?
Resizing HFS+ is a bitch. Only payware exists which does the job. When I had a look at it a few weeks ago, all torrents were old and with no seeders.
HOWEVER.
I suddenly came over a thread at the Ubuntu forums. parted could do the job!
So!
I disabled journaling on my drive:
cd /Volumes
sudo diskutil disableJournal Macintosh\ HD/
I had an Ubuntu Live CD(might be one of the last flights or the final one, not sure). I downloaded and burned a copy of the Ubuntu installation CD, but this obviously failed, somehow. The CD wouldn't boot(nor mount). I was not at home, had no more CDs. I booted off the Live CD, resized the HFS+-partition using parted and created new ones using gparted. So far so good.
I hit the "Install to disk" icon on my desktop. This went OK, but complained about yaboot and a bootable partition. After some hassle I had created a special Mac-bootable area using mac-fdisk(800K). I went to the installer again, but still complaining. I cancelled it and formatted the bootable 800K partition to HFS. The installer complained no more, and soon I was surfing the net in Ubuntu! Woo!
Booting back to OS X went fine :-)
So far:
I had downloaded the firmware in advance, so WLAN was OK with the live CD.
WLAN OK once installed too, though the driver seems a bit immature and WPA and such might be a bitch(is supported, but who knows). NetworkManager does not seem to cooperate well with bcm43xx(known issue), darn. Wifi-radar and command line tools works(and ndiswrapper is for x86, right?)
Sound, bluetooth and such all works fine. I've been sending stuff from my cell with no hassle and fancy GUIs asking me whether or not I wish to accept the file.
Sleep works fine! Slap, sleep. The mouse hung after a long period of sleep once, though. I've actually experienced this a couple of times with OS X earlier.
Direct rendering is not possible as far as I know.
The touchpad works as it's supposed to. I've configured it to scroll on the right side and with no tapping, as well as increasing the speed of the pointer. It's terribly slow by default(without configured synaptics driver and such) :-/
Function keys works(sound, brightness, eject). They're the opposite of OS X, though(F5=F5, Fn+F5=volume up).
It's also adjusting the CPU-speed automatically, but you know. Battery drains muchmuch faster than with OS X :-(
Yes, all?
Any tips for me?