CentOS - Dec 2010 - CentOS 5.5 on a new Mac Mini? no CD Driver?

Hi All,

I am attempting to install CentOS 5.5 64 bit on my new Mac Mini. I boot to the
CD and when I get to selecting where I am installing from (local cd, hard disk,
ftp, etc) I select Local CD and it cannot find a driver and wants me to manually
specify or use a driver disk.

I ave no idea what drive is in this system. 

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

-Jason

OK, my problems get worse.

I connected an external USB DVD Drive and that worked.

Now, however, no hard disks are recognized....

I was really hoping to run CentOS on this machine, but I guess back to Snow
Leopard Server I go....

On Dec 6, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am attempting to install CentOS 5.5 64 bit on my new Mac Mini. I boot to
the CD and when I get to selecting where I am installing from (local cd, hard
disk, ftp, etc) I select Local CD and it cannot find a driver and wants me to
manually specify or use a driver disk.
> 
> I ave no idea what drive is in this system. 
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> 
> -Jason
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On Monday, December 06, 2010 03:54:15 pm Jason T. Slack-Moehrle
wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am attempting to install CentOS 5.5 64 bit on my new Mac Mini. I boot to
the CD and when I get to selecting where I am installing from (local cd, hard
disk, ftp, etc) I select Local CD and it cannot find a driver and wants me to
manually specify or use a driver disk.
Boot from the USB CD into rescue mode; once you have a command line, what does
the output of 'lspci -v' show?

The kernel in C5.5 may just simply not have the driver for the chipset; you may
need to either install a Fedora with the right driver in-kernel, or wait on C6.

On 12/6/10 3:54 PM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am attempting to install CentOS 5.5 64 bit on my new Mac Mini. I boot to
the CD and when I get to selecting where I am installing from (local cd, hard
disk, ftp, etc) I select Local CD and it cannot find a driver and wants me to
manually specify or use a driver disk.
>
> I ave no idea what drive is in this system.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> -Jason
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
You need to install and use Apple's Boot Camp to make CentOS work on a 
Mac Mini. It will install a utility on the drive that will make the Mini 
look like an ordinary system instead of the Apple based hardware 
including standard drivers for the Cd/DVD and hard drives and network 
and sound support. I have an old single core Mac Mini running CentOS 5 
32 bit just fine.

One problem though is that I believe that Snow Leopard Server version 
does NOT come with Boot Camp. If so you'll need to get a version of Snow 
Leopard that does have Boot Camp available. I think the Standard version 
of Snow Leopard is about $30.00 from Apple.

If you need help I can be available via Skype to answer your questions.

Bob Arnold