[DC LoCo] using ubuntu with boot camp on a mac?

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Mon Mar 29 21:06:35 BST 2010


On Monday 29 March 2010 10:21:36 am Phil Shapiro wrote:
>    Just curious if anyone here is using Ubuntu with boot camp on a
> Mac? I've started dabbling with video editing in Ubuntu and found that
> virtual solutions, such as VMWare, are not fast enough for video
> editing.
> 
>     Although I love a good tech challenge, setting up Ubuntu with boot
> camp on a Mac seems pretty involved. It might be easier for me just to
> buy another SATA laptop hard drive and install Ubuntu onto that.
> Swapping hard drives on a Macbook takes all of three minutes, I've
> heard.

Maybe if you're booting from USB...  I recall one of my friends having to 
replace his MacBook's hard drive, and that involved prying the darned thing 
open.  It's the battery that pops out easily.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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