CentOS - Sep 2017 - [Slightly OT] Use CentOS to create a bootable Mac OS X DVD from dmg file?

Le 23/09/2017 ? 19:36, Remik.ca a ?crit?:
> If you are just upgrading, you don't need to burn any DVDs.  Just mount
the dmg and run the included installer.
> 
> You'd only need to burn the DVD if you wanted to wipe the MBP and do a
clean install.
> 
> Or - use Recovery Mode and do entire macOS installation over the internet,
no boot DVDs required, just internet access (wired of wifi).  It will download
the OS files directly from Apple servers and install on the local machine.
> file:///home/kikinovak/ISO/CentOS/CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1708
Long story short, I can't seem to upgrade this thing.

But the good news is, I've booted a few Linux Live CDs, and I think I'll
just replace Mac OS X with CentOS 7, if possible.

Anyone here with experience on installing CentOS on a MacBook Pro? This
model is from 2009. As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), Apple
hardware always uses EFI.

What can I expect? Flawless installation or countless hours of suffering
due to completely unexpected problems?

Cheers,

Niki

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On 2017-09-23, Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr>
wrote:
>
> Anyone here with experience on installing CentOS on a MacBook Pro? This
> model is from 2009. As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), Apple
> hardware always uses EFI.
>
> What can I expect? Flawless installation or countless hours of suffering
> due to completely unexpected problems?
I put CentOS 7 onto a MBP.  I'm not sure what vintage it is but probably
similar to yours.  IIRC the install was relatively straightforward,
including wireless and X11, two factors that were a huge PITA for me in
the past on Apple laptops.

--keith

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Le 25/09/2017 ? 07:02, Keith Keller a ?crit?:
> I put CentOS 7 onto a MBP.  I'm not sure what vintage it is but
probably
> similar to yours.  IIRC the install was relatively straightforward,
> including wireless and X11, two factors that were a huge PITA for me in
> the past on Apple laptops.
With CentOS 7 I only had one problem, which proved to be a showstopper.
Normally I'm running a highly customized version of KDE on all my CentOS
desktop installations (installation is described in detail on my blog at
https://blog.microlinux.fr/poste-de-travail-centos-7/). On the MacBook
Pro, KDE simply froze at startup. The KDE splash screen would show the
first hard disk icon, then there would be a little chime, and that's it,
freeze.

I've already seen this behavior on other older laptops, and a peek in
/var/log/Xorg.0.log showed me that the card couldn't render the desired
effects (don't remember the exact error message). And this even though I
had installed the proprietary NVidia driver.

The thing would probably have worked with Xfce or MATE, but I had a
strict time limit for that installation. Ubuntu 16.04 worked pretty much
out of the box - and is nice to look at - so I decided to go with that.
Next time I'll give CentOS 7 + custom Xfce a spin.

Cheers,

Niki

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