Installing to a mac...

[verto]

I was wondering if there would be any problems if I tried to install debian to my mac. I would be using the netinst disk, but from what I understand linux should do fine regardless of the hardware its running on (I know I've seen phones, xboxs, and other such things with linux on them). I know there are probably specialty distributions that I can install on my mac just fine, and if I get some negative feedback about debian on a mac, then I would be happy to use one of them, but I would prefer debian.

The mac is fairly new, supports OS X just fine, I believe it has a 3ghz processor and 512mb of ram. Though I have no idea how to check these things on a mac...

[SeanGee]

I am using Parallels and ran through the installation using netinst over the weekend. No problems at all.

No idea about installing natively but it works great in the VM

[techieMoe]

I was wondering if there would be any problems if I tried to install debian to my mac.

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The mac is fairly new, supports OS X just fine, I believe it has a 3ghz processor and 512mb of ram. Though I have no idea how to check these things on a mac...

Can you be more specific about what kind of Mac it is? Personally, if you're just curious to see how Debian runs I would either run it in a virtual machine (as suggested already) or download a Debian-based LiveCD distribution that will let you boot it from your CD drive and not mess with anything on your harddrive.

[verto]

I have no idea how to check anything on my mac. I'm unfamiliar with it, and since I can't find much software to fit it, I would rather just install linux and use it as more storage space and a media center.

[techieMoe]

I have no idea how to check anything on my mac. I'm unfamiliar with it, and since I can't find much software to fit it, I would rather just install linux and use it as more storage space and a media center.

Personally, I think it would be quite a waste to wipe a perfectly good Mac and just use if for storage. But it's your box. I assume it is running Mac OS X? To find out more about your hardware, you should be able to go to the Apple menu (top left side of the screen) and go to "About this Mac..." then select the "More Information" button. This should bring up the Apple System Profiler, which will give you detailed information on your graphics card, harddrives and space, processor and speed, and anything plugged in via PCI, PCI-express or AGP.