Boot Camp: Installing Linux
Monday, October 30, 2006
Wanting to install Linux on your new Mac... but not sure how? This is a nice guide on how you can, quite easily, install Linux on your Mac using Bootcamp. Three parts to check out, navigate to telegraph.co.uk:
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A few weeks ago, in Faqs! Facts! Fax! 531 (10/09/06) in response to a query about the DT Mk II ‘Vista Ready’ computer (Boot Camp 436) I casually mentioned that if anyone was interested in finding out about how to install Linux on this machine they should write in, and you did! The sizeable response was unexpected, and not just from DT MK II builders, so in the next few episodes of Boot Camp we are going to be looking at how to install Linux on a Windows XP computer in a dual-boot configuration, so at switch on you will have a choice of operating systems. We’ll also deal with a single boot (i.e. Linux only) installation, so there’s something for everyone.
If you just want to get a flavour of Linux, without compromising your system have a look at Boot Camp 403, which looks at a version of Linux that boots directly from a CD. I have to warn you that the dual-boot procedure we’ll be using is not without risk so I urge you not to try it on your main PC unless you have backed up all of your irreplaceable files and are prepared to accept the consequences of something going wrong.