Installing Etch on Macbook?
Got one of those nifty macbooks a while ago and after peeking at
http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook I decided to give it a go immediately.
First of all, this particular Macbook of mine seems to be able to run
GNU/Linux quite nicely: I started experimenting with Ubuntu and got it
up and running without hazzles. So hardware is more or less ok. However,
feeling a bit lonely in the jungles of Ubuntuish ease of use, I decided
to quickly go back to my distribution of choice, Debian.
So, 15th Feb 2007 I burned Debian Etch netinst image and forced it into
the SuperDrive tray. Booted. Got that normal "Press F1 for help, or
ENTER to boot: " prompt. Pressed ENTER. Twice. A couple of times more.
After several tries it seemed obvious that whole system has frozen
immediately after displaying the boot prompt.
The Macbook section of Debian Wiki refers to some strange keyboard
problems resulting double keypresses. However, this is not the same
problem since keyboard completely locks up (and thus instructions in the
Wiki are unusable since they refer user to type some extra parameters
for kernel to boot).
Mac OS/X system profiler says my Macbook hardware is of revision 2,1:
White Macbook w/ 2GHz Intel Core2 Duo (1Gb memory, 80Gb HD but that's
not relevant to the problem at hand I guess).
Any ideas how to move on?
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Sami Laine @ GMail
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