Macbook and Linux Question.

Mark JB · 28 Jun 2006 at 09:51

Im planning on running OSX and XP (girlfriend needs it

) via bootcamp on a macbook and i feel id already be sharing the 60GB hard drive enough.

Alas at some point i would want to get some Linux action in but the thought of running three os systems on one machine is scaring me.

So my question is rather than buy a larger internal drive could i buy an external hard drive of a decent size and boot say Ubuntu up from that and operate it as a completely seperate entity ?

FirebarUK · 28 Jun 2006 at 10:01

I think so. You could also use a LiveCD in the meantime?

CocoPops · 29 Jun 2006 at 16:15

I installed Ubuntu on my macbook today.

I went down the route of Parallels, so don't have reboot etc.

It installed fine and everything works.
As mentioned above, you could always use the LiveCD option, thus avoiding the need for the linux os to be "installed" etc.

Mark JB · 29 Jun 2006 at 16:39

Live CD's are kind of pointless though as i want somewhere to save my files and running of a CD is painfully slow.

Ill have a play with Parallels but i may just wait till i can get another laptop purely for linux hackery.

FirebarUK · 29 Jun 2006 at 16:41

Well you could use the LiveCD to save stuff onto your hfs+ partition ....

punky_munky · 30 Jun 2006 at 00:04

Go with Parallels. Seriously, you almost can't tell it's virtualized. Honest. Don't bother with Bootcamp unless you want to play games or do 3d stuff.