Installing Linux on my Macbook

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This page is intended as a personal reference for this personal project. No efford to make the text readable for other entities.


Ok, so about a year back (june 2013) I decided that I wanted to try a macbook/OSX. It turned out that I didn't like OSX much, so Linux is going to fix that.

Lots of trouble that comes with this is describe on this page [1] (Extracting the relevant information and post it here is TODO)

The result is that the most safe way to install Linux on my macbook is to install a second harddisk. I am still partly locked in OSX & Windoze due to a combination of school and money-hungry big companies. That makes a triple-boot using 2 harddisk necessary. The last part still needs to arrive in order to build the harddisk in.

UPDATE

okay, I already did this project. Debian jessie as only OS turned out to be fine. On the ubuntu site you can find instructions to put debian/ubuntu on a usb-key. Hold alt when booting up, that should run the installer. After installation I had some trouble getting the wifi to work, turns out I got the BCM4331 Broadcam wireless chip. Installing the 'wl' driver took care of that issue (https://wiki.debian.org/wl).

One other thing: running Linux really fucks up the battery life, I got 3 hours of battery now, while on OSX it would last around 8 hours. For me that is worth it, but it might not be for everyone.

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