Bootcamp and Linux?

[Christopher-Mark Gilland]

I posted this also to the Mac Visionaries list, so sorry for the cross-post,
but figured someone here could help.

I'm pretty sure the short answer to this question will be technically?...
yes... The long answer will probably be, yes, and no.

Technically speaking, Bootcamp on the mac, is made for either Windows Vista,
or Windows 7. Is there a way however that I could set up a bootcamp
partition on my mac book, then install UBuntu, Vinux, or F123 Linux?
preferably either the last two of the three.

I know I could do this in VMWare Fusion, ok, fine, that's fair, but that's
not exactly what I'm wanting to do for various reasons. For another thing,
being I'm an audio engineer, I want to keep my mac partition free of pretty
much anything non audio related for my studio workflow, and keep my Linux
stuff totally seperet.

Thanks.

Chris.

[Jason Miller]

Hello.

Simple answer, yes. Hard answer, yes.

If you set up a partition, and remember a couple things like swap space
to be used, a shared drive between the two, and if you use separate
partitions for anything like slash and home, then that's about it.

You'll be installing whatever distro you use on the third partition,
after EFI and HFS+ (usually SDA3). Drop in your installer disk, and
treat the third partition (unless you have others on there for some
reason of course) as it's own drive.

Go through the setup and partitioning as you normally would and you're done.

I can't stress enough that you have to start with the "empty space"
after HFS+ or your shared drive if you already have one, along with
remembering the total space you'll be wanting for all of your splits
after the install. It's much easier to plan a little ahead, and take
your time, instead of getting it the way you think on the fly, and
realizing you ran out of space, or wrote to the wrong partition.

HTH.

Jason

[Jeremiah Ticket]

Yes, and no, you are correct. It is possible, I have it set up that way.
Some additional configuration on the linux side is necessary as well.
For ubuntu, look for mactel in the wiki.