And how about the Apple MacBooks?

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koder · Post by **koder** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:21 am

Hi,

The new Apple MacBooks feature an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. This makes it an x86_64 machine, for all I know. But does this mean that one could install a x86_64 Gentoo Linux on it as if it was an ordinary PC?

Has anyone tried this? Is there any info on this?

I have been looking around, and the only information I found is about using Portage on MacOSX... but I am talking about running a full blown native Gentoo Linux on it.

Anyone?

greetz
koder

nlindblad · Post by **nlindblad** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:44 pm

No idea whether it counts as x86_64 but it certainly isn't an AMD64

There's an article about installing Gentoo on a MacBook in the Gentoo wiki: HARDWARE Apple MacBook

Not sure it is updated enough to cover the new Intel CPUs but the history of the article tells me it's been under revision for some time and I bet it's updated enough to answer your questions.

Good luck!

liakouras · Post by **liakouras** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:15 am

I would like to install gentoo on my macbook (intel core duo,512MB) using the parallels program which emulates the operating systems.
I would like to know which of the downloads I should use.

Thank you.

nixnut · Post by **nixnut** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:50 pm

Merged above post here.

See the wiki article linked above.

Jimmers · Post by **Jimmers** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:30 pm

I have ~amd64 running on a Macbook, 1,83 GHz, 512MB. Here's my .config if you need it.

codadilupo · Post by **codadilupo** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:46 pm

Hi,
i'm trying too to install gentoo on the latest macbook (3rd gen, right?). The issue is that howtos suggest to install using the installcd minimal ia64, but it refuses to boot even as legacy (BIOS) even as EFI.
there's out there a custom minimal CD to start within the ia64 environment ?

Have someone a hint to solve that issue ?
Thanks!

Coda

gentoo_ram · Post by **gentoo_ram** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:31 pm

IA64 is the Intel Itanium architecture. That's not a "normal" PC. It's something completely different. Intel Macs use the Intel Core2Duo chip. For that, you can use the AMD64 install disk. I have not tried to install AMD64 Gentoo on an Intel Mac, but I would think it should work under bootcamp.

The bootcamp install guide says that 64-bit Windows is not supported. But I supposed that's because they don't have 64-bit Windows drivers for the hardware. That isn't an issue in Linux.

I don't know if the various virtualization products (VMware, Parallels, etc). support 64-bit installs. You'll have to read the details on those products very carefully. You may have to stick with a 32-bit Linux install on those.

codadilupo · Post by **codadilupo** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:29 pm

oookey, so I probably mixed up different sources and got confusion, because I understood that ia64 was a sub-project of AMD64, intended for those Intel CPU that use EM64T extensions instead of a true 64bit processor

Thanks, I'll try with AMD64

Coda

And how about the Apple MacBooks?

And how about the Apple MacBooks?

Gentoo on MacBook