June 30th, 2010 | nubae
Seeing as I recently purchased a macbook Pro for the nice price of 600 euros, I searched around for the easiest way to create a dualboot system, one with osx, the other with the latest Ubuntu. The procedure was actually ridiculously simple.
First use disk utility to erase the free space on your mac partition. Once its finished verifying the changed space, you can go ahead and
create a partition with Free Space. This will result in pretty much nothing happening in that area. What I mean is, it wont show a partition with no space, it just wont show anything in the free area.
Next go to Start Up Disk in the System Preferences, and with your ubuntu disk inserted (or any other bootable linux distro for that matter (probably even Windoze) choose to start up from that disk,
The system will restart and you'll have to go through the typical installation of ubuntu from CD. The only place to be careful is in the partitioning section where you should choose partition largest continuous free space, and NOT format whole drive, as that would erase your OSX partition.
You should finally have the option to install grub which will detect the osx partion and then when u next startup your computer, you can choose either OSX or Ubuntu...
They really couldn't have made it much easier than that...
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Tags: 10.04, dualboot, mac, osx, partition and ubuntu | 1 Comment
