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Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics

From Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux
Subject Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics
Date 2018-09-22 04:10 +0200
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On Friday 21 September 2018 21:14, Arlen H. Holder conveyed the 
following to alt.os.linux...

> Quick question about Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics.
> I ask here and leave off the Apple folks since they just play silly
> games.
> 
> In your experience...
> Q: Can the Mac dual boot to Ubuntu or at least boot off a bootable
> DVD? A: ?

That should be possible, yes.  For dual-boot installations, you should 
look into something called Boot Camp, which ─ as I understand it ─ was 
designed to allow Windows users to install Microsoft Windows on a Mac 
alongside the native macOS.  And if you can use it to install Microsoft 
Windows on a Mac, then you most certainly can install GNU/Linux on it.

In fact, Linus Torvalds himself has or used to have a Mac that runs (or 
ran) GNU/Linux, although that may still have been one of the PPC Macs, 
from before Apple switched to Intel processors.  

The PPC processor is (or was) either way supported by the upstream Linux 
kernel.  Of course, in that case you also needed a distro that was 
compiled for PPC, and not all distros support an equally wide variety of 
processor architectures.

> Q: If yes, does Ubuntu recognize the native Mac file system?
> A: ?

In read-only fashion, most certainly, yes, but I don't know whether 
GNU/Linux can _write_ to HFS+.  I seem to recall that it cannot, but 
you'll have to put in the necessary legwork to discover that for 
yourself as I don't personally own a Mac.

But even if it's writable, then I would still not advise using HFS+ as 
the main filesystem for your Ubuntu system, because HFS+ is case-
retentive but not case-sensitive.  You could however use a small HFS+ 
partition for sharing data with macOS ─ again, if it's writable to the 
Linux kernel, which I don't know.

-- 
With respect,
= Aragorn =

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Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-21 19:14 +0000
  Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2018-09-21 12:31 -0700
    Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-21 19:43 +0000
  Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-09-21 21:42 +0200
    Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-21 20:06 +0000
    Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-21 20:10 +0000
      Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-21 20:21 +0000
        Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-21 21:56 +0000
          Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-22 01:31 +0000
            Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Danny DeVito <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-22 00:59 -0400
              Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-22 12:29 +0000
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2018-09-22 21:14 -0500
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> - 2018-09-22 21:31 -0500
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2018-09-22 23:20 -0500
            Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2018-09-22 03:22 -0500
              Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-22 12:08 +0000
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2018-09-22 21:05 -0500
  Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-09-22 04:10 +0200
    Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-22 03:40 +0000
    Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2018-09-21 23:41 -0400
      Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-22 14:11 +0000
    Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-22 16:35 +0000
      Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-09-22 19:08 +0200
        Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-22 17:34 +0000
          Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-09-23 06:18 +0200
            Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-23 13:22 +0000
              Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-09-23 16:16 +0200
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-23 14:52 +0000
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-23 15:25 +0000
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-24 00:34 +0000
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-24 03:15 +0000
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-09-24 05:54 +0200
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2018-09-24 05:08 -0400
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-24 10:30 +0000
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-24 11:35 +0000
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-24 12:09 +0000
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-24 13:00 +0000
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2018-09-24 21:17 +0000
              Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2018-09-23 14:43 -0500
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-23 19:55 +0000
        Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-22 19:55 +0000
          Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-22 20:19 +0000
            Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2018-09-22 21:20 -0500
              Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-09-23 06:26 +0200
            Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-23 12:50 +0000
              Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-23 13:55 +0000
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-23 14:40 +0000
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-23 15:39 +0000
      Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-22 20:39 +0000
        Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-25 03:38 +0000
          Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-09-25 07:33 +0200
            Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-25 15:48 +0000
              Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-09-26 01:09 +0200
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-26 00:07 +0000
                Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics "Arlen H. Holder" <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-26 00:17 +0000

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