Hi,

I would like to buy a new macbook pro (15" without retina 9,1) and
install Debian. Has anybody been able to install debian/linux on it? I
read somewhere else that people are having problems to boot linux from
those machines. The new EFI might be different?

Thanks,
Dan


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> I would like to buy a new macbook pro (15" without retina 9,1) and
> install Debian. Has anybody been able to install debian/linux on it? I
> read somewhere else that people are having problems to boot linux from
> those machines. The new EFI might be different?


You mean to run natively? *As in dual boot? * Lots of problems. *And not everything works or works correctly mainly due to proprietary hardware and the lack of drivers. *I'd recommend installing Debian in a VM like VirtualBox or VMWare. *That's what Mac users do when they need to run Windows on their Macs. *Less headaches. *And everything works. *Just install the maximum RAM your machine will take.

B


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>everything works. *Just install the maximum RAM your machine will take.

Retina model is just nice piece of work, memory sticks are soldered
into motherboard,
so remember to take 16GB model..

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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> I would like to buy a new macbook pro (15" without retina 9,1) and
>> install Debian. Has anybody been able to install debian/linux on it? I
>> read somewhere else that people are having problems to boot linux from
>> those machines. The new EFI might be different?
>
> You mean to run natively? As in dual boot? Lots of problems. And not
> everything works or works correctly mainly due to proprietary hardware
> and the lack of drivers.

Indeed:

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/laptop/476258-howto-2012-retina-display-macbook-pro-opensuse-linux.html

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2007444


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