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Inviato da Kyre il Mar, 10/01/2013 - 19:26

Installing Trisquel on a Mac

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Mar, 10/01/2013 - 19:26
Kyre
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Hello everyone,

As the title says I have a Mac and I want to install Trisquel as a second OS (actually I wanted it to be the only one OS, but I had to instal Mac OS X in order to boot Trisquel Live CD via rEFInd), but I have an issue. After booting the Trisquel Live CD via USB I chose “Install Trisquel to HDD”. A black screen appeared, I waited a few minutes, but nothing happened.

Could someone help me with this trouble please? I am new to GNU/Linux, have tried Ubuntu though.

If it will be any help, here are my Mac’s specs:
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB RAM
256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 320M

Thanks,
Kyre

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Mar, 10/01/2013 - 23:41
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I was able to install Trisquel, over-writing Mac OS X, and I haven't had any problems.

I notice that your computer has a NVIDIA Graphics card; 3D Hardware acceleration may not work properly because NVIDIA has not released free-as-in-freedom firmware, and only Free Software is included in Trisquel.

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Mer, 10/02/2013 - 00:26
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Here the exactly specs:
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP584
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3246#nvidia320m

From h-node[0] one Macbook Pro 7.1 doesn't worked with 3D acceleration with NVIDIA GeForce 320M. But it was tested with Trisquel 4.5(2011). Need one test with Trisquel 6.0.

[0] http://h-node.org/notebooks/view/en/236/Macbook-Pro-7-1/1/1/Apple/undef/undef/undef/undef/undef/undef/undef

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Mer, 10/02/2013 - 07:00
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Thanks for the replies. So there is no way to install Trisquel on my machine?

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Mer, 10/02/2013 - 07:05
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By the way, I was able to install Ubuntu 13.04 which does not have NVIDIA drivers installed by default. It has to be some other problem.

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Mer, 10/02/2013 - 07:40
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>After booting the Trisquel Live CD via USB I chose “Install Trisquel to HDD”
Before choosing the option hit F1 or F2 or some function key, there are special boot options that might allow you to boot.

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Gio, 10/03/2013 - 22:04
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The F buttons didn't help, or I did something wrong.

I installed the latest Debian with nouveau drivers and they work almost perfectly (way better than on Ubuntu).

I still want to give Trisquel a try. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks.

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Ven, 10/04/2013 - 01:35
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AFAIK, you can fix Nouveau issues by updating Linux-Libre. The Trisquel live-CD comes with Linux-libre 3.2 by default, you can update it to 3.5 by installing linux-generic-lts-belenos, and you can get the latest version (3.11, or 3.10 if you like LTS) at jxself's website.[0]

What Linux version do you have on Debian? You can find out in a terminal with "uname -r". If it's a newer version than 3.2, that might be the problem you're having with Trisquel.

[0] http://jxself.org/linux-libre/

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Ven, 10/04/2013 - 07:18
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Thanks for the help!

I have Debian 7.1 with Linux-libre 3.2.

I will try to install Trisquel and Trisquel Mini on VirtualBox and see how it goes.

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Ven, 10/04/2013 - 15:18
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You can try with a CD or DVD. Was easy and it really works in Macbook.

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Ven, 10/04/2013 - 15:32
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I tried, but my Mac refuses to see bootable DVDs other than Mac DVD and ejects them in a few seconds. I will try my luck with Trisquel Mini. Debian has crashed because I pressed spacebar to preview a file...

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Ven, 10/04/2013 - 17:09
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Have not got any luck with Trisquel Mini either. I tried to install it in text mode. Here is what I got:

Loading casper/vmlinuz...
Could not find ramdisk image: casper initrd/netist

Any tips?

Tried NetInstall too, but my system did not see the USB stick.

The last option is to install Ubuntu and then install Trisquel over it, but it seems too cumbersome.

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