SDB:Install on MacBook

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I have done this and got no problem [except for wireless cards]. I think this will work with MacBooks [Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo] and MacBookPros [Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo]. I will refer to the DVD but its the same for the CDs.

Important Note: Read this before and throught the instalation.

Downloading

First download rEFIt, this is for booting any system. Then download BootCamp [this is only for partitioning]

Partitioning and rEFIt installation

After both are downloaded install rEFIt. Do not reboot, load the BootCamp assistant, do not burn the Windows drivers, skip to the partitioning step and select the amount of space for Mac and for SUSE [in this case Windows]. After doing this quit the assitant and reboot.

Installation

Insert the DVD and reboot. Then load from DVD [It will appear on the rEFIt menu]. Its said that the keyboard doesnt work all the time so reboot and reboot form DVD until you get it to work. next select on the DVD menu to install, continue until you get to the summary part. Change the partitioning, make your custom partition, partition 1 is from rEFIt so don't format it, partition 2 is Mac OSX so don't format it [it will say linux native but forget it], partition 3 is going to be for SUSE do resise it to make a partition 4 for the swap partition. Next edit the 3rd partition and click or tab until you get to "Format" and select ext3, on the mount part select / that is root. Then on 4th partition click or tab until format and select "Swap" and on mount select "Swap". Now hit ok and you are in the summary again, change "Booting" and select LILO from the other tab and hit ok. Countinue with the installation.

Install LILO

After rebooting, the rEFIt menu will appear. On the below icons there will be something about partiotioning, hit enter and select yes. Return to the rEFIt menu and reboot. Now there will be 3 icons. Select the DVD and pick rescue. Nows in here log as "root". Now type the following:

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mount -t proc none /mnt/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
chroot /mnt /bin/bash
grep -v root fs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
cd /etc
touch lilo.conf
vi lilo.conf

Now there will appear a lot of things just hit esc and type ":wq" to save all and the type "lilo" accept and it will say something about that lilo was installed. Reboot.

Booting

On the rEFIt menu select Linux [There will be 2 the HDD and the DVD one select the HDD] and continue with the instalation [it is just user names and passwords] but do not update!! it ruined my system and I needed to install Linux again. There will be something about the root password, remember it because it will be needed for everything.