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some more news ... after putting an efi partion on a new san disk plus 128gb ssd with the help of an icy usb adapter under windows xp I could put the efi file of the knoppix live os in there and all of sudden > when I start the mbp ... it does not show the ? any more but goes black ... as...

good news ... after putting an efi partion on this new scan disk plus 128gb ssd with the help of an icy usb adapter I could put the efi file of the knoppix live os in there and all of sudden > when I start the mbp ... it does not show the ? any more but goes black ... as if to want to...

. update .... I have been doing more research on this and it seeming that > the next thing to do would be > to connect a external sata hdd or ssd via usb adapter to the pentium 4 and install some live os on this ... then disconnect the hdd or ssd from the adapter and connect it to the mbp...

update .... I have played around with the macbook pro more and pressing alt + cmd + r + p has reset the pram so now I can hear the chime at the start and the pointer is now lower on down but still moving but nothing to choose from !!! so it seems the efi chip in there is gone ? so I...

update .... I have played around with the macbook pro more and pressing alt + cmd + r + p has reset the pram so now I can hear the chime at the start and the pointer is now lower on down but still moving but nothing to choose from !!! so it seems the efi chip in there is gone ? so I...

. where are you going ? there are uefi boot sections on the newer linux systems I have seen this with my own eyes so if those are not compatible with the mac book pro unibody from 2008 then the linux will not work and I have been reading > that especially mbp unibody is not compatible...

.... yes you can boot linux from a usb boot stick but you need the efi from the mac os on the hdd first since the linux uefi is not the same as the mac efi as well as a lot of drivers so I think I will contionue to look for a virtual mac an the linux mint + cinamon ... and I have found a...

. to whom it may concern > well this is what I wanted to do ! but it seems impossible to do ... from what I read every where ! you can maybe boot you mac book pro unibody from a usb bootstick > with a os 10.5.6 and install it on a new hdd ... I have installed and then later install a linux...

where would I best start this thread ? about how to make a boot stick for a mac on linux .... either with the os 10.5.6 or any linux that would work but it seems like there are definitely problems with the last one so using the mac os would be fine with me ! thank you .... but I have found...

but .... if it will just install a live installation then it would just ... load all needed files onto the pc ram so there is no hdd needed as you are saying because it will not write onto the hdd any way or ? but ... I am looking just now for > an app to burning this slaxs with the...

hello it just loads all the linux onto the ram ? and this being the reason > that even with slaxs ... you need at least 512 mb of ram ps ... I already ask rob in the other thread .... .

. ...... I have just tried to burn a slaxs live booting cd on this ubuntu cd burner ... but it is aparently disabled .... but if I stick my iso file in this linux pc it unpacks the slaxs files and then all the files put in there apearing in the "archive manager " after some time...

hello ... I have been reading in some great linux book some as well as looking in some other big library at their linux work station there and a mac os book and I want to ask you ... what I have been finding out there .... the linux work station has a kde desktop on it meaning there is...

hi rob .... well ... I am trying to use this mbp unibody some day ..... that has no formated hdd in it > ofcource no installation no recovery possible ! and no other mac available to do any thing in this direction ! just some windows xp .... etcher does not support and in the future a linux...

hello ... does any one here .... know how to make a usb boot stick on a linux ? or windows xp pc ? for a macbook pro 2008 unibody without any thing a the hdd and the super drive not operating without another mac to make this stick just those linux and windows xp pcs ! and a os 10.5.6 dmg...

thanks for all the answers ! I will work on getting slaxs to a pentium using " unetbooting " to burn it onto ? now back to the original question > I got a mac os 10.5.6 dmg on a stick ! and since the internet is telling me that you can not install a linux on a macbook pro without having a...

hello ... so you are developing 32 bit versions out off 64 bit or ? I have been reading about slax just now and it say there > " any cpu from this century will take the 64 bit version " but I am not sure about this 64 bit statement because as far as I know the intel pentium 3 from around...

great help ! desktop and browser will be enough > because I do want this just as a internet pc for now ! to see how it will work ... I will have to decide on the 32 or 64 bit version and check on this tomorrow in the library .... I will let you know ... how it goes after ! .

hello ... thanks for the link ... but I already have been searching all over and it seems even linux lite is blown up now a days so it does no fit on to a cd only some early distributions are small enough to fit and I do want one of them but are they functional for browsers we need...

hello ... the acer aspire 4315 has keyboard problems ! like so many of them ... and as of now ... I see no way to even want to fix this ! but I have build a pentium3 pc together where to install a linux I have downloaded a linux lite 3.2 at the library how can I make a installation cd...