SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 with Bootcamp

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SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 with Bootcamp

Hi all,

Does anybody tried to install SLED 10 (Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop) on a MacBook Pro with BootCamp ?.
Before trying I would get your feedbacks.

Cheers.

Thierry.

MacBook Pro 2.16, Mac OS X (10.4.7), Also using SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 as server

Posted on Sep 27, 2006 1:43 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 27, 2006 2:05 PM in response to Thierry*

I'm also interested in this as well. I just installed it on my desktop and so far I really like it. Now I just need it on my MBP 🙂

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Oct 3, 2006 5:28 AM in response to Tu13erhead

Well I heard that some guys tried to install it with bootcamp but there is a problem with the boot loader. Who has already tries ?

Feedbacks are welcome .

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Oct 20, 2006 7:50 AM in response to Thierry*

Some news,
I download Refi boot manager and get installed to my MBP.
It works and you can boot from the SLED 10 DVD.
But I had no more diskspace left on my MBP and I need to resize the Apple FS partition.
You can do that with diskutils resize, but I don't want to burn the existing and working partition so who tries ....

Thierry

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Oct 20, 2006 9:12 AM in response to Thierry*

Well, I am not using boot camp, but I can confirm that it works really well under parallels. Probably not the kind of reply you were looking for, but it may be helpful.

Berndt

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Nov 2, 2006 5:29 AM in response to Berndt Jung

Well, some more good news.
Finally it works yeaaaaah.
So let me explain just what I have done:
- Install Refit boot loader
- Resize you HFS+ MBP partition, be carefull to have a backup of your data before in case of problems.
My MBP runs with a 100GB hard drive. I decide to split the partition to 82 GB for OSX and 2 partitions for SLED one for the root fs 8GB and a swap partition of 2 GB.
The command line look like this:
sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 82G "Linux" sled10 8G "Swap" swap 2G:
You get 8GB for SLED and 2GB for the swap.

- boot to the sled 10 DVD and install the system to the / formated Reiserfs (it should be sda3 and activate the swap FS (sda4) for the expert menu.
- be carefull at the intall end, IT 'S VERY IMPORTANT TO CHOOSE LILO for the linux bootloader because GRUB doesn't works.

- Get the updates for the Novell web site and try to setup XGL & Compiz but it's another story

and that's all folks !!!!

Apreciate your feedbacks.

cheers.

Thierry

Mac Book Pro 2,16 ghz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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