I have been going slowly mad with the noise that my server at home produces, so having just got a refund from the tax man I have bought a nice quiet, small mac mini. Now, I need to get dapper onto it: easy, or so I thought, but sadly it failed boot after getting things installed. I have found some guides on the web on how to install linux, but they focus on keeping the ability to multi-boot, which I don’t want.
Does anyone know the best way to install dapper totally wiping the MacOSX installation ?
I know that this doesn’t answer your question, but those looking for something Mac Mini-like to run Linux on may be interested in this:
http://system76.com/index.php/cPath/2_52 Even comes with Edgy pre-installed!I did it by burning a Dapper PowerPC “Alternate” CD, booting from it (press the ‘C’ key while booting) and just installing it that way.
Or do you have one of the new shiny Intel ones? In that case: I have NO idea.I installed Fedora Core on a mac mini with no problems. First you need to install bootCamp to ‘prep’ it. Once you’ve done that reboot with the installer CD, delete the Mac partition (leaving the first partition of around 100 Meg which seems to be identified as vfat) and partition away and it just worked for me. (the first partition ended up being a EFI partition for something).
PeterIf you’re interested in installing Edgy, you can blow away the whole Mac and EFI partitions and install GRUB to the MBR, provided that you change the disk type from GPT to MS-DOS, either with Apple’s DIsk Utility or with gparted. Single-booting with Dapper requires chrooting and a patched version of grub–there’s a thread on the Ubuntu Forums about it here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=233243
Jonah,
Thanks! I can’t believe I haven’t found that link before, following the instructions works beautifully, and my mac mini is how 100% dapperCrispin,
Another good utility is ‘rEFIt’: http://refit.sourceforge.net/ I use it on my macbook, its rather lovely. All the best, Chris