From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FFTKi-00054C-Oh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:45:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k249ipc3012394; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 09:44:51 GMT Received: from dolly.gnuher.de (dolly.gnuher.de [212.227.64.154]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k249f1kj016509 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 09:41:01 GMT Received: from p54a372a5.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.163.114.165]) by dolly.gnuher.de with esmtpsa SSL 3.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_MD5:16 (Exim 4.50 id 1FFTG0-00089m-H2) for ; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:41:01 +0100 From: Christoph Eckert To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Mac Mini Intel Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 10:41:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200603032005.48694.ce@christeck.de> <200603040318.16807.Rick.van.Hattem@fawo.nl> In-Reply-To: <200603040318.16807.Rick.van.Hattem@fawo.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603041041.02363.ce@christeck.de> X-Archives-Salt: a018a798-506f-4ca7-8e53-7ec31e159f90 X-Archives-Hash: 716f46afc8c026d33a978db160690ab1 HI Rick, > Yes, Gentoo should run on it. > Use the plain x86 installer. that's good news :) . > The only problem might be the new type of bios that is in the intel > mac series, I'm not sure how well it is supported by linux. > > I haven't seen any positive or negative messages about running linux > on an intel mac so can't help you there. I even wonder if all interfaces (USB, firewire, graphics) will work on the box. > And dual booting should be possible, it was always possible with the > old apples. I hope Apple didn't do some magic to prevent installation of other OSes like Mac OS X. Anyway, I guess I will give it a try. Thanks & best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list