$Id: MAC-MINI-SETUP.txt,v 1.2 2007/05/24 20:56:01 aoki Exp $

how to put Ubuntu onto an Intel-based Mac Mini

NB: i have only tried this with the 1.66GHz Core Duo Mac Mini
(MA607LL/A).  but it has worked successfully on many different Minis
of that model :-)

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Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)

- boot into MacOS installer
  - insert MacOS DVD 1 and boot, holding down 'c' to boot from cdrom.
  - start Disk Utility and repartition the disk.  the only choice that
    matters here is to go into Options and set the disk to use MBR
    instead of GUID (otherwise Linux can't see the disk).  the
    partitions don't matter.
  - exit MacOS installer (which reboots the system).
  - while rebooting, hold down mouse-button-1 to eject MacOS cdrom and
    then insert Ubuntu DVD.
- boot into Ubuntu DVD
  - start Ubuntu installer from desktop and make the initial
    selections.
  - select manual disk repartition.
    - select new partitions and assign to mount points.  for example:
	/		sda1 8192
	/boot		sda2 256
	swap		sda3 4096
	/var		sda4 (the rest)
    - complete the Ubuntu install
  - before rebooting, get a shell (start terminal)
    - use fdisk to mark boot partition as bootable
  - reboot - at this point, the system should boot ok from the hard
    drive.

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Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)

- boot into MacOS installer
  - insert MacOS DVD 1 and boot, holding down 'c' to boot from cdrom.
  - start Disk Utility and repartition the disk.  the only choice that
    matters here is to go into Options and set the disk to use MBR
    instead of GUID (otherwise Linux can't see the disk).  the
    partitions don't matter.
  - exit MacOS installer (which reboots the system).
  - while rebooting, hold down mouse-button-1 to eject MacOS cdrom and
    then insert Ubuntu DVD.
- boot into Ubuntu DVD
  - start Ubuntu installer from desktop and make the initial
    selections.
  - select manual disk repartition.
    - delete any previous partitions (the partition tool seems to get
      stuck if you try to keep the MacOS Disk Utility partitions).
    - select new partitions and assign to mount points.  for example:
	/		sda1 40960
	swap		sda2 4096
	/restore	sda3 (the rest)
    - complete the Ubuntu install
  - before rebooting, get a shell (start terminal)
    - use fdisk to mark boot partition as bootable
    - fix the grub installation.  (if you do not do this, the system
      will still not be able to boot from the hard drive because it
      won't find the OS.)  for example, with the above partitioning:
	% sudo grub
	grub> root (hd0,0)
	grub> install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0,0) /boot/grub/stage2
	grub> quit
  - reboot - at this point, the system should boot ok from the hard
    drive.