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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.os.linux |
| Subject | Re: Quick cross-platform question on Ubuntu/MacOS dual boot basics |
| Date | 2018-09-21 23:41 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <po4dlf$dhq$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <po3fv4$vpk$1@news.mixmin.net> <po489r$nfc$1@dont-email.me> |
Aragorn wrote:
> 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.
>
It's a Mac, so it's bound to have challenges.
http://refit.sourceforge.net/info/boot_process.html
Apple has at least three of their own file systems now.
They have HFS, and HFS+, but they've also added AFS
more recently. While GParted has support for HFS+
(from my Mac G4 box), when I attempted to change
a partition, the partition table got trashed. Rather
than being worried about merely writing to a partition,
I'd be more concerned about getting too adventurous with
GParted. I prepared in advance, and had a backup, so
"nobody got hurt".
Paul
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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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