General :: Install A Distro On A Macbook And Remove The OS X?
Jul 11, 2011
I've been dabbling into linux by installing Wubi on my main computer, out of ease to install, but I use windows to do many things I'm not sure if I could do as easily in linux. Anyway, I had a macbook before I got my new main computer, and have been wondering if I can install linux on my macbook to test out other distros without potentially endangering my main computer (out of complete idiocy on my part, of course). Is this possible? Is there any specific "guide" out to do this?
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Apr 11, 2010
I have a laptop dual booting to Windows 7 and Opensuse 11.2. However, I'd like to switch to a different Linux distro (probably Ubuntu, that's what I'm used to)
Is there a way for me to do it without losing the Windows 7 setup/data?
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Jul 17, 2010
They finally got the MCP89 kernel patch finalized and released as a Ubuntu DVD in the daily build of Lucid Lynx (good job!). I tried it, but even after following Ubuntu's Wiki-guide to fix various problems, a lot of my Mac's functionality broke and I don't want to take up that battle yet (of trying to get everything to work perfectly {I'm a perfectionist}).So I want to remove Ubuntu and GRUB2 from my system. But even with some experience with problems like these, I'm in the ultimate pickle. OS X uses the GUID Partition scheme and EFI, whilst bootcamp has a BIOS/MBR emulator to run Windows. I installed the GRUB bootloader to the MBR (I think {In "/dev/sda" during the install}). I use rEFIt to chainload into GRUB2 to boot Ubuntu, and I want to remove that icon, return to booting Windows 7 using it's own bootloader, and restore the GB's that Ubuntu took back to the Windows 7 partition.
I'm lost and (for the first time in a while) WAY over my head. I have no experience with EFI/GUID. (I just got my first Mac a month ago)
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Jul 25, 2010
i installed ubuntu to multiboot with windows 7 but i don't know how to remove it to where its just windows again you can't delete the partiton ecause grub comes up how do i make it go back to the way it was before i installed ubuntu
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Apr 12, 2011
I have macbook pro,coare 2 duo 64 bit processor so i downloaded slackware13.1 64 bit but before installing it,i wanted to try it on virtual machine but it is giving me error "this kernel requires an x86-64 cpu,but only detected an i686 cpu. unable to boot-please use a kernel appropriate for your cpu". I checked my machine is 64bit.what should i do now to get slack up and running.
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Mar 2, 2010
I have install the ubuntu 9.10 on my macbook pro running on snow leopard.
I see lots of errors especially on the usb driver.
And I have download the lastest update and after updating the ubuntu 9.10 the whole computer went in hang mode. i cannot do anything but just to resinstall my snow leopard and reload every thing and then i dare not install ubuntu again and worse there is no way i can boot into mac or ubuntu.
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Dec 12, 2010
I can't figure out how to remove a Ubuntu distro in grub that I no long have installed. I have Win 7, Ubuntu 10.4 installed but when I boot my grub menu shows Win 7, Ubuntu 10.4 and Ubuntu 10.10 that I have removed from my hard drive but still shows up in the menu. I have been trying many commands in the terminal menu to edit grub but nothing shows me how to remove a menu entry.
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May 10, 2011
I have the following on my hard drive
Ubuntu 11.04
Mint 10.0
Windows 7
I would like to remove Mint and recover that space for Ubuntu, but since I installed Mint last, I think it is "in charge" of the grub bootloader, so I figured if I just expanded the ubuntu partition then I would lose the bootloader and not be able to log into anything. Is this the case? what is the best way to remove mint while still preserving the grub menu.
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Jun 7, 2011
So this morning i booted Xubuntu in an effort to replace Fedora 15, basically just getting a feel for all sorts of different distros. although it was slightly more confusing that the others i've tried on install because i had to manually configure partitions, and prompt didn't give a description really of which was which, so i took a shot in the dark at which was fedora to overwrite, and hoped i didn't remove win7 so all went well, but it appears Fedora is still in my system, using roughly 50GB still, it won't boot. but it is in the boot menu, and i can see it from Xubuntu. Can i remove this to add that bit of space to my new distro? or would i have to reinstall xubuntu Seems to be mostly just old folders and such, but it's being shown as a device. I don't see it in Gparted i don't think.
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Jan 9, 2010
nominate a disastrous distro from past or present that was simply AWFUL and what exactly was so bad about it?
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Jul 2, 2010
I bought laptop HP ProBook 4520s (Core i3, ATI Mobility Radeon 4350, 4GB 1333MHz Ram).I'm looking for the best Linux distro to install on it. With which distro do you think it will cooperate best?I had a problem with Ubuntu 10.04 (stripes when playing video).
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Mar 4, 2011
which distro should to install without having to burn a cd. i have grub installed though so i guess extraction the iso and pointing it to files to boot would be a good option.
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May 13, 2010
Can I safely remove 1 distro without screwing up the other? I have Linuxmint as secondary and ubuntu as the last.I want to replace ubuntu.If I just delete the partitions/format and install my other os which is OpenSuse 10.03 will this work.will opensuse see linuxmint and make grub understand?
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Dec 8, 2010
So I have my netbook triple-booted with Windows XP, vanilla Ubuntu, and Kubuntu Netbook (Installed in that order).
I however would love to remove Kubuntu Netbook from my computer, but unfortunately, since I installed it last, it is the Linux OS that owns the current default GRUB files that the BIOS reads first.
Can someone please tell me what to do to remove the Kubuntu partition and restore the default GRUB to my vanilla Ubuntu so I can still use my computer? I've done this incorrectly before and freaked myself out because whilst trying to access the GRUB, my computer couldn't find it because the partition that the files were originally on was gone. Haha. I don't even know how it got fixed.
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Mar 1, 2010
I just finish my LFS distro and now the only way I have to install it on another computer is copying files from a box two another. I want to make this proccess easy, user friendly if possible, like making an install DVD that I could just put in the drive and choose install, no livecd is needed.
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Feb 10, 2011
I just bought a few nova5000 computers for a decent price and i want to put a linux distro on it. all the info on the computer is at [url]
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Jun 1, 2010
I currently own a Viliv x70ex UMPC. It has Windows 7 Home Prem. currently loaded on it, but I would very much like to set up a dual-boot partition for a a Linux install. My current issues stem from the fact that thus far to date, my research has essentially come up with more issues than solutions as far as this goes. Among other things, I've seen lots of references to driver issues for the touch screen, graphic issues with the Intel GMA that's installed, and so on. If anyone out there can shed some light on this problem, or be able to direct me to a resource with a tutorial for doing this,
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May 18, 2011
I have been hearing some cool things about window managers like fluxbox and I was wondering what the best distro is to put it on? Is fluxbox the best window manager to use?
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Jun 8, 2011
I have a 8 GB flash drive and a 4.3 GB DVD iso (openSUSE-11.3) Is it possible to use the flash drive to install the linux? Pendrive linux universal USB installer formats it to Fat32 which limits the filesystem to 4 GB.
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Feb 28, 2010
I have this ancient Dell Dimension V333 with a Pentium II 333 MHz and 320MB RAM that my family needs for web browsing, word processing, etc. What I need is a distro that is easy to setup and install and easy to use because they have only ever used windows (and a little ubuntu).
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Mar 28, 2011
If I can install more than one distro on my Multiple boot pc. I already have, Mandriva, Win xp, and Win 7 on. But you know how it is, you want to try out all the linux systems if that is possible. I guess using a live cd would allow me to do it. I do not want to bugger up the systems I already have on.
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Oct 5, 2010
i multibooted with windows 7 and ubuntu 10 lucid, windows crashed for some reason and ubuntu remained running live and strong, but i want to do a clean install of windows while still having my installation of ubuntu untouched. i tried doing this on several machines but windows ended up becoming the dominant bootloader and i couldn't get grub to recognize the windows os partition and the linux partition for booting but when i did i only got the linux distro and i didn't see windows when i tried to boot into the distro it just re-directed to the grub menu it just kept doing this until i decided to turn the machine off
is there a way to install windows and dual boot it with linux if linux was installed first
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Jan 3, 2011
I have a box with Novell Suse linux installed. It asks for username and password I do not have and cannot figure out. I also have a SantaFe distro CD with which I would like to replace the Suse on the box. I cannot get the box to BIOS to change the boot order to boot from CD. I would like to break free of Windows, but can't seem to get there from here...
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Feb 1, 2010
Besides Puppy or DSL, is there a full "regular" Linux distro that is friendly to be installed on a USB flash drive that won't wear it out? I want to be able to upgrade it, not just keep minor persistent changes like the methods outlined in pendrivelinux.com. The loopback file would fill out too much if I actually did a apt-get update, so I want something that installs natively on a USB flash drive with EXT3/EXT4, etc.
However, is there a distro that sends the log to a tmp ram drive, for instance? Something made *not* to wear out a USB drive too fast? I want a truly portable Linux on a UFD, not a semi-attempt that uses casper.
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Mar 19, 2010
Laptop has broken internal CDROM. I booted with floppy to get Puppy 431 installed from USB stick. Now I have USB CDROM access thru Puppy. I can mount and see the CD fine.
Is it possible to boot or install from a currently installed linux distro (Puppy)?
I have a second free partition ext2 available, sda2, and GRUB is working fine for me on boot.
(machine also doesn't have boot from USB option, yes, it's old, a project I am working on, I have Nimblex in CD now, I think it's a live cd, I would like to try a few different ones by installing to sda2 and wiping if ng.)
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Feb 25, 2010
Pretty soon, I hope, I'll get my brand new PC and wish to install a Linux disto. on it. openSuse may be it But I read recently that people prefer to do a fresh install of a newer version of openSuse, instead of upgrading it, apparently because of problems that may occur by the upgrade. As I understand, this preference apply to all Linux distributions and not only openSuse. Thus I wonder if there's a Linux distro. that's best in handling upgrades?I don't want to make a fresh new install each and every time that my disro. has a new version. I'm afraid to lose the data in that installation, and backing-up the data would be a headache. Also I plan to install a Windows OS alongside the Linux one via the Dual Boot configuration.
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Aug 8, 2011
How to setup/install a vividwireless USB broadband 4g modem on Ubuntu 11.04 distro?
# lsusb... yes, the modem type is an Huawei bm358 Wimax USB stick from vividwireless vendor,it shows mac address as follows: 641f03d903e...
cottoned on to the blah about bogus 4g... why the lies I wonder, apparently there is no 4g in Australia!
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Apr 22, 2010
I have a Macbook && two questions MacBook Model==>MC207LL/A Here how to install suse 11.2 on my mac?(I have Windows 7 too.) are there any driver for this Model?
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Jun 14, 2009
installing Fedora 11 on a MacBook.
It is mostly aimed at the 3,1/4,1 white series but a lot of the details are relevant to the newer 5,1 and aluminum macbooks too. Pretty much everything works just nicely with the tweaks described.
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Nov 24, 2009
Got a macbook pro, how do I get Opensuse install on it. Partition has already been made..
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