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Boot camp really has 2 purposes
Boot camp contains information necessary to emulate the BIOS in the EFI (or is it EMI) motherboard chipset to boot Windows and I don't see why this couldn't be used to boot Linux or anything else.
The second part is the hardware drivers for Windows. You'd need to find linux drivers for all of the hardware and that could prove to be difficult. Especially since the drivers are also what control the MB fans, IIRC. I remember early on when people were hacking the first Intel Macs to run Windows the fans running at full speed or not at all seemed to be common problems.
Boot camp contains information necessary to emulate the BIOS in the EFI (or is it EMI) motherboard chipset to boot Windows and I don't see why this couldn't be used to boot Linux or anything else.
The second part is the hardware drivers for Windows. You'd need to find linux drivers for all of the hardware and that could prove to be difficult. Especially since the drivers are also what control the MB fans, IIRC. I remember early on when people were hacking the first Intel Macs to run Windows the fans running at full speed or not at all seemed to be common problems.
Oh, really? That's pretty cool.
Partition.... first? Where do I do that? (Sorry, I just got this computer yesterday, recent switcher ^_^
go to applications/utilities/disk utility
select a HD and then you'll see a tab that says partition
select a HD and then you'll see a tab that says partition
No prob. Once you're done let me know how it went. I've been interested in doing the same thing, just too lazy to get going on it.
Yes, choose the master boot record. After that is done, it should allow you to select the size of the partition.
Here are all the detailed steps to follow.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh14.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh14.html
These links might be useful:
http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/HOWTO
http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Dual_Booting
You'll need a second partition:
http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/articles/apple-mac-os-x/nondestructive-partitioning.php
Make a backup of your drive first. I suggest getting an external hard drive and iinstalling Linux on it, or cloning your Mac HDD to it using something like SuperDuper so you can easily fix it when you have problems. I say "when" because it's doesn't seem to be an easy process, and the first time you do something like this, the chances are high that you'll screw something up.
By the way, I haven't done this, and even though I've screwed about with dual booting Linux and Windows, I wouldn't try this. Unlike killerrobot I'm not going to encourage you to do it.
http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/HOWTO
http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Dual_Booting
You'll need a second partition:
http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/articles/apple-mac-os-x/nondestructive-partitioning.php
Make a backup of your drive first. I suggest getting an external hard drive and iinstalling Linux on it, or cloning your Mac HDD to it using something like SuperDuper so you can easily fix it when you have problems. I say "when" because it's doesn't seem to be an easy process, and the first time you do something like this, the chances are high that you'll screw something up.
By the way, I haven't done this, and even though I've screwed about with dual booting Linux and Windows, I wouldn't try this. Unlike killerrobot I'm not going to encourage you to do it.