[pd] linux on a mac
altern
enrike at altern.org
Sat May 7 12:26:09 CEST 2005
hard off wrote:
> what linux distribution will work best for pd on mac?
>
> (mine is a G4 cube, running os9 at the moment)
>
> anyone got a link?
ubuntu goes ok, it is quite easy to install, but i havent managed yet to
setup ALSA properly, i didnt try very hard so i am not sure how
difficult this is. Pd was giving me some weird noises at some moments.
www.ubuntu-linux.org
> also, it's a long shot, but there's no way i can partition my mac hard
> drive without doing a full wipe, is there?
there are some commercial softwares to do this. google and youll find
couple of them. I am not sure how good they are. I did a full wipe and
it was really easy to do.
the basic process is to start the computer with the mac intaller dvd on
the drive and holding C down, then from the file menu you select to use
the mac Disk utility. With it you create the partitions you need, then
install OSX on one and later Linux in remaining ones.
With ubuntu (and i biet with debian will be the same) I did partition my
HD in two (one for osx and one for data) then left few megs of free
space. Later when i installed Ubuntu i choose to install it automaticly
in the free space, it did it quite well, all worked fine.
for more details ask in the ubuntu list
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