Repartition the hard drive, the first of a long list of command-line Early on, the user is guided through using the Terminal to but the first hit - a 2007 article, Tripleīoot via BootCamp Ubuntu - makes it seem more daunting that I want Googling something like Mac Boot Camp Linux gets pages of links showing that it's In a virtual session using my choice of Parallels Desktop, VMwareįusion, or the free VirtualBox, but I'd like the option of booting my
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I've wanted to be able to install Linux on my Mac. How about a mention of this in one of the dialogues as users are Job of letting users know about this as they're setting up Boot Camp. Set that ships with compatible Macs, but Apple doesn't do a good enough (These drivers are typically on the Disc 1 of the Wants the responsibility for providing drivers for the wide range of PC Moreover, Apple supports Boot Camp users by including Windowsĭrivers for the hardware built-into its Intel Macs. Windows or by many other PC operating systems. Unlike most PCs, the Intel Macs do not use old-style BIOS at startup įirmware Interface) that isn't supported by earlier versions of I can think of a couple of reasons for the limitations.
(And note that upgrade versions of these are Install any PC operating system they want, as long as it's Windows XP The major limitation, at least for me, is that Boot Camp lets users Smoothly and easily - at least if you're prepared to accept the
In typical Apple fashion, Boot Camp "just works", That ran on then-current Mac OS X 10.4 and later as a Leopard-only (See, for instance, my June 2006 column, Windows XP on Macintel a Reality.)Īpple forestalled all this by releasing Boot Camp - first as a beta Wasn't pretty, and it wasn't something that most users wanted to try on With so-called Hackintoshes (non-Apple PCs running Mac OS X), it The ways they came up with worked - but as To a way to run standard PC operating systems - primarily Windows and Using Intel chips, the hacker community took it as a challenge to find When Apple's Macintosh computers migrated from using PowerPC CPUs to