[Wolves] Installing Linux on a 8 year old mac book

[Barry W]

Ah, that sorted it, thanks. My old macbook is now running Debian, no wifi
as yet, need to track down the firmware.

On 7 March 2016 at 20:12, Paul Salahuddin Armstrong <paul.armstrong at aobm.org
> wrote:

> I installed openSUSE 42.1 (x64) on my wife's black Macbook from 2008, works
> perfectly. The install was quite straightforward. I needed to install a
> bootloader called "refind" to boot the DVD, but once this was done, install
> was almost the same as for any PC.
>
> http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
>
> After install, everything worked except the wifi, due to an absent
> proprietary driver. This is easily fixed through adding the Packman
> repository, and installing the Broadcom driver for wifi from the repo.
> After that, everything has worked fine. The trackpad even works better than
> in OS X, and a two-finger tap simulates the missing right trackpad button,
> present in PC laptops.
>
>
>
> On 7 March 2016 at 18:43, Barry W <baza41 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ok, seems it's not as easy as I was hoping :/ I've installed Linux on a
> few
> > old PC's so I'm not a total noob at this, but this mac lark is very
> tricky.
> > I've burnt the iso to a cd, so it should be a matter on shoving it in the
> > drive, hitting c during boot etc. But no, the mac does not recognise the
> > disk (I've tested it in a pc so I know the cd is ok). Also tried a USB
> > install too, again no joy.
> >
> > On 22 February 2016 at 20:51, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint <
> > mark.croft.lug at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > is apple being more open about the hardware now? i have apple machine
> > > that has some sort of hardware fault just not got around to finding
> > > out about it. I can't remember the details. all the hardware built
> > > into the screen its about 10 years old i believe.
> > >
> > > just wonder if it worth getting it fixed and use linux on it.
> > >
> > > mark
> > >
> > > On 22 February 2016 at 20:34, Alex Willmer <alex at moreati.org.uk>
> wrote:
> > > > On 22 February 2016 at 19:16, Barry W <baza41 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> OK. How easy or otherwise would it be to install linux (I'm thinking
> > > >> Debian) on my old mac book?
> > > >
> > > > Probably quite easy, just burn a install disc, then boot from it by
> > > > holding down c during power up. Be aware if it's 8 years old then the
> > > > CPU may be a Core Duo, that means 32-bit only - no x86_64. See
> > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook#Model_specifications
> > > >
> > > > At 8 years old, even Macbooks have pretty good drivers on Linux. To
> be
> > > > sure try it with a live CD/DVD e.g. https://www.debian.org/CD/live/
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