Fwd: Winders, OSX, and Ubuntu - native on MacBook

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 02:11:26PM -0800, Steve Bibayoff wrote:
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> From: xxxx
> Date: Mar 28, 2006 7:06 PM
> Subject: Winders, OSX, and Ubuntu - native on MacBook
> To: uuasc at uuasc.org
> 
> 
> My boss lady spent a weekend night armed with a fellow
> geek that works for her and some vodka. 3 hours later,
> she had Windows XP running native on her MacBookPro.
> http://podfeet.com/wordpress/?p=78#more-78
> (scroll down to "Installing Windows XP on my MacBook
> Pro")
> 
> She brought it in to work and impressed us all. I came
> by in the afternoon to see it and casually mentioned
> that it would be interesting to see Linux on there,
> and that I had a Live CD of Ubuntu handy. They said it
> wouldn't work because of the EFI architecture. I said,
> "Why don't we pretend that we're too ignorant to know
> it won't work".
> 
> As I'm not on the same floor, she decided to download
> a 380MB bzipped ISO.

I'm guessing that this is the modified image available from
mactel-linux.org. We're still working on making our CDs bootable on the
Intel Macs.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]