Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple - Boot Camp - Windows XP on a Mac
Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple - Boot Camp - Windows XP on a Mac
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple - Boot Camp - Windows XP on a Mac
- From: Michael Chute <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:15:04 -0400
Have you tried yaboot? It allows for booting into both osx and
linux, in fact the default is to boot ubuntu I think. Here are a
couple of links, one to yaboot the other has yaboot related customs
and links.
http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/yaboot/
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/
tweak_yaboot_so_mac_os_x_is_my_default_os_not_ubuntu_or_yellow_dog_linux
.html
Michael D. Chute
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On Apr 5, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Michael Johnson wrote:
On Apr 5, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Dave Hale wrote:
More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this
choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the
next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and
run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp
(for now), you can download a public beta today.
As elegant as it gets
But does it do Linux/*BSD? That would be truly elegant
The most exciting part about being able to boot into another OS for
me is the ability to use my Ubuntu install disk on a MacBook Pro
and use it as well as Mac OS X. Personally, I try to stay away
from Windows as much as I can.
This is a fantastic idea for bringing over the Average Joe and even
some enterprise folks. I just opened up three IBM (Lenovo)
ThinkPad T43 machines on Monday and installed Ubuntu before the pre-
installed Windows installation had the chance to see the light of
day. I have three more ThinkPads coming next week. Two of those
will get Ubuntu (or RHEL WS4 or Fedora Core) and only one will
remain Windows (unless I can convince the person to run anything
else). If we had this ability of dual-booting the MacBook Pro, we
would have bought them instead as with the special pricing we all
get from Apple, it was cheaper to get the Mac than the ThinkPad.
If there's a way to make this work, some hacker out there will hack
together a patch for it, but if Apple did it, corporate/government
types would be more willing to allow it.
First, you need to make sure your Intel-based Mac has the latest
version of Mac OS X and the latest firmware update. These provide
technologies that make Boot Camp possible. It’s also wise to print
out the Installation & Setup Guide.
The Boot Camp burns a CD with the drivers Windows needs to
recognize Mac-specific hardware. It is very important to do this
before starting the Windows installation.
This doesn't seem very "Apple-like" at all. Is this printing out
of directions because of Windows? If I were able to install Linux
(which I can do without instructions other than on-screen) would I
have to print them out as well?
-Michael
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