Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

[Jerome BENOIT <g6299304p@rezozer.net>]

Hello,

On 03/07/11 14:19, lee wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT<jgmb65@rezozer.net>  writes:
>
> > The very first stage is to install refit ( http://refit.sourceforge.net/ ) from Mac OS X.
> > And then Debian can be installed quite as usual.
> > For more details see http://wiki.debian.org/MacBookPro
>
> Thanks for the info :)  It seems once you get refit working, you could
> use a Debian installer CD and get it installed.  However, the Mac sucks
> too much to try: You can't install more then two disks,

what do you mean by disk ?

 and you can't
> install any of them in the right orientation.

I am getting more confused here:
are you dealing with a MacBookPro or a MacPro ?

  I have another disk I
> could use (if the Mac supports SATA disks),  but since it's always been
> installed in the right orientation, it's too likely to fail.

Your issues seem rather as hardware issues.

Jerome