[Noisebridge-discuss] how do you install linux on a macbook?

[miloh]

Oh jake, duh I forgot when helping you that I have a usb optical drive ill
pick it up and bring it to you at chm tonight.
On Nov 19, 2012 5:44 PM, "Jake" <jake at spaz.org> wrote:

> I have been trying for days to get my black macbook 2.1 (whatever that
> means) to boot linux from a USB stick.  My preferred installation is Linux
> Mint Cinnamon and i have a Core 2 Duo CPU so i have been trying to do
> 64-bit installation.
>
> It hasn't worked.  My computer has rEFIt already installed on it so it
> totally recognizes USB sticks when it boots, but if i choose them it fails
> with various messages.  The farthest i got had something to do with
> /boot/efi/elilo.efi and elilo.conf but i couldn't figure out what to put in
> elilo.conf and it shouldn't be this hard anyway should it?
>
> i don't have an internal optical disc right now but i tried a stock linux
> boot DVD in an external (firewire) drive and the same thing happened as
> with the USB stick - rEFIt sees it but if i choose that volume to boot
> from, it errors out with some crap.
>
> If you have any experience with this process please let me know.  I'm
> trying to re-up my computer getting nowhere.
>
> -jake
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