Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Intel Mac Mini?

[KH <gentoo-user@konstantinhansen.de>]

Robert J. King schrieb:
> It is done often.  Writing this on an 24" Intel iMac running Gentoo w/ kde.  
> Just a few gotchas that I ran into:
>
> 1.  The 2008.0 livecd's version of grub doesn't have the Mac partition patch.  
> Simple update of portage and then grub fixes this.
> 2.  Nvidia binary drivers seem to have a bug that will turn off the screen 
> everytime you either close X11 or switch to a VC.  The screen comes back on 
> when you go back to X by CTRL+Fn unless you have shutdown X11.   If that is 
> the case, then you have to restart it by typing blindly or ssh'ing in from 
> another machine.  I haven't found a fix for this yet.  Not sure if this 
> pertains to the mac mini they might be using ATI.
>
> Good info at:  http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Apple_Macbook_Pro
>
> If you plan on installing to the hard drive I recommend keeping a small OSX 
> partition (for firmware updates and stuff from apple) and using rEFIt as a 
> boot manager.  http://refit.sourceforge.net
> This is how I have it set up and its working well.
>
> On Friday 27 February 2009 02:21:37 pm Grant Edwards wrote:
>   
>> I'm considering attempting to set up an Intel Mac Mini as a
>> MythTV frontend.  Right now I'm thinking I'll leave the
>> internal drive alone and boot from net or from a USB flash
>> drive.  That way I can spin down the internal HD and save on
>> power and noise (and the standard OS-X install is still there,
>> so it can be trivially switched back to normal desktop use).
>>
>> I've been googling for info on running Linux on a Mac Mini, and
>> there was fairly active discussion 3-4 years ago, but very
>> little recent info.  That leads me to either of two
>> conclusions:
>>
>>  1) It can't be done and everybody gave up.
>>
>>  2) It's so trivial that people no longer need to ask about it.
>>
>> So, how hard would it be to do a USB or network-based Gentoo
>> install for a recent Intel Mac Mini?
>>     
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