So, the first official The Tech Juice post. Please hold your applause until the end of the presentation.

I needed to install Linux on my shiny new MacBook. Being new to the MacBook scene caused me to wonder whether or not this was even possible. But, naturally, I figured out how to do it, and thought I would create a quick How-to on the topic. I figure the theme meshes well.

New Site. New MacBook. New Os.

On to the juicy stuff.

How-to Dual Boot Ubuntu Linux on a MacBook with OS X.

The first and probably most important step is to download Bootcamp and rEFIt. You can get Bootcamp here, and rEFIt here. rEFIt is a boot loader and toolkit that is used to graphically (looks very pretty in my opinion) decide which operating system you would like to boot into. Bootcamp for our purposes is simply going to be used to resize the original Mac partition.

Resize the MacBook’s partition so that you have the desired space for your Ubuntu installation. Tell Bootcamp that the so that is being installed is Windows XP.

Using your Ubuntu CD that you downloaded from here. Boot into the live environment, and run the installer.

The prompts are mostly straight forward, so go through and set up the options as per your needs. Eventually you will reach a partition window. You need to create one partition that is mounted on / and is ext3 file type, and another that’s about 1-2 GB large for a swap file type.

Continue through the prompts and you should end up having Ubuntu installed on your MacBook.

There are some things that should be done to get some features working, but that is beyond the scope of this post. I would refer to this post on how to get some of those features working. I had trouble getting the track pad to function properly, but in my laziness I remedied that with a good old USB mouse.

I hope this was helpful, and if anybody has any feedback about this post or the site feel free to comment or drop us an email at thetechjuice@gmail.com. We check the emails daily.


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