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I've bought a brand new Apple MacBook, and installed slackware linux 12.0. Here
is the step by step instructions;
1. First of all grep the iso images, and burn them...
Grab install DVD from http://www.slackware.org,
and burn...
2. Use Mac OSX to intall refit, and resizing OSX partition
2a. Install Refit.
The easiest, and maybe the best solution for dual booting is refit. With refit
you will not have to do fancy tricks, and will able to use standart linux tools
for dual booting. Also, you may try tripple booting (macosx, linux, windows)
in future which is quite easy with refit. Anyway, download and install refit
from http://refit.sf.net
The steps to install rEFIt this way are as follows:
- 1. Download and mount the rEFIt-0.10.dmg disk image.
- 2. Double-click on the 'rEFIt.mpkg' package.
- 3. Follow the instructions and select your Mac OS X installation volume as the destination volume for the install.
- 4. Open terminal
~# cd /efi/refit
~# ./enable.sh
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If everything went well, you will see the rEFIt boot menu on the next restart.
2b. Resize Mac OSX partition.
Resizing could be done with parted, but using diskutil is safer.
~# diskutil resizeVolume /dev/disk0s2 40G Linux Linux 40G
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3. Boot the MacBook with Install DVD.
Just press and hold the key 'C' while MacBoot is booting, or wait for refit to
show up and select boot from DVD in menu.
You will see Iso Linux instructions, and kernel selection for either huge.s or
hugesmp.s. Just press 'enter' to continue booting with default kernel image.
If keyboard does not work do not worry, sometimes happens in lilo session, just
wait untill it boots (i guess timeout value is 120 secs). You will not deal
with keyboard issues after intalled slackware and lilo, since you will use lilo
just for loading linux kernel, not for OS selection (no promt, no worries).
4. Prepare partitions with parted
You must use parted for partitioning, because it is the only tool that can
handle EFI GPT (at least for now).
Although, parted is not included in slackware 12.0, luckly it is included in
install dvd. Use parted to delete the linux partition that you had created with
distutil and create one linux, one linux swap, and what ever you want.
~# parted /dev/sda
(parted) rm 3
(parted) mkpart primary linux 44G 84G
(parted) mkpart primary linux-swap(new) 84G 86G
(parted) p
p
Model: ATA ST9120822AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 120GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 20.5kB 210MB 210MB fat32 EFI system partition boot
2 210MB 43.2GB 42.9GB hfs+ Customer
3 43.2GB 84.0GB 40.8GB ext3 Linux
4 84.0GB 86.0GB 2000MB linux-swap Linux Swap
(parted) quit
~# mkfs.ext2 -j /dev/sda4
~# mkswap /dev/sda4
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Outputs may be differ (should not, but i did not takes notes for outputs)
5. Correct partition table with refit
This step is required for setup process, since slackware setup uses probe to
check root and swap partitions, and it is not able to understand EFI GPT you
need to syncronize MBR with GPT. Anyway, just reboot and use partitions tool
in refit menu. Just say 'y' when it asks for syncronizing. Nothing special.
There should be several ways to do the syncronizing, but this is the safest,
and easiest way to do.
6. Install slackware linux
Boot the install dvd again, and install slackware. I guess you already know how
to install. Just follow the instructions.
Skip lilo install in setup, you will install lilo manually.
7. Install lilo
After installing slackware you should install lilo before rebooting. Assuming
that you install linux to /dev/sda3.
~# cd /
/# umount /mnt
/# mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
/# chroot /mnt
~# cat > /etc/lilo.conf << EOF
boot = /dev/sda3
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda3
label = linux
read-only
EOF
~# lilo
~# exit
/# umount /mnt
/# reboot
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8. Configure Xorg
here is my xorg.conf; xorg.conf
Enable mouse buttons emulation, left mac button as middle, right mac button as
left mouse button.
~# cat > /etc/sysctl.conf << EOF
dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation = 1
dev.mac_hid.mouse_button3_keycode = 126
dev.mac_hid.mouse_button2_keycode = 125
EOF
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9. Upgrade to linux-2.6.23.14 kernel.
here is my kernel configuration file; kconfig-2.6.23.14
# cd /usr/src/
# wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.23.14.tar.bz2
# wget http://alperakcan.org/documents/slackware%20linux%20on%20macbook/kconfig-2.6.23.14
# tar -jxvf linux-2.6.23.14.tar.bz2
# rm linux
# ln -s linux-2.6.23.14 linux
# cd /usr/include
# rm -rf linux asm asm-i386 asm-generic
# ln -sf /usr/src/linux/include/asm ./asm
# ln -sf /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 ./asm-i386
# ln -sf /usr/src/linux/include/asm-generic ./asm-generic
# ln -sf /usr/src/linux/include/linux ./linux
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make mrproper
# cp ../kconf-2.6.23.14 ./.config
# make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install
# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.14
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change your /etc/lilo.conf properly
10. Install Atheros AR5418 driver, and be wireless
Grab latest sources from http://madwifi.org.
But, latest stable driver does not support AR5418 chip, so use the latest
snapshot from svn.
~# tar -zxvf madwifi-ng-r2708-20070915.tar.gz
~# cd madwifi-ng-r2708-20070915
~# make
~# make install
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11. Connect to AP
11.1 Connect to AP - no encryption
# iwlist ath0 scanning
...
# iwconfig ath0 essid "essid"
# iwconfig ath0 key off
# dhcpcd ath0
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11.2 Connect to AP - WEP
it is very easy to connect with WEP (atheros ar5418).
# iwlist ath0 scanning
...
# iwconfig ath0 essid "essid"
# iwconfig ath0 key s:"key"
# dhcpcd ath0
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11.3 Connect to AP - WPA
i know that you need wpa (atheros ar5418) ;)
# wpa_passphrase SSID_TO_CONNECT YOUR_PASSWORD > /etc/wpa_supplicant.con
# wpa_supplicant -iath0 -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd -B
# dhcpcd ath0
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12. BlueTooth
I have a logitech bluetooth mouse and here is the instructions to use a bluetooth input device.
As the kernel.conf file above has bluetooth options turned on, there is nothing to do with the
kernel, all we need is to download and setup bluez-libs and bluez-utils.
# wget -c http://bluez.sf.net/download/bluez-libs-3.24.tar.gz
# wget -c http://bluez.sf.net/download/bluez-utils-3.24.tar.gz
# wget -c http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-python/dbus-python-0.82.3.tar.gz
# tar -zxvf bluez-libs-3.24.tar.gz
# cd bluez-libs-3.24
# ./configure
# make
# make install
# ldconfig
# cd ..
# tar -zxvf bluez-utils-3.24.tar.gz
# cd bluez-utils-3.24
# ./configure --enable-all
# make
# make install
# ldconfig
# cd ..
# tar -zxvf dbus-python-0.82.3.tar.gz
# cd dbus-python-0.82.3
# ./configure --prefix=/usr
# make
# make install
# ldconfig
# cd ..
# cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/bluetooth.mouse << EOF
import dbus
bus = dbus.SystemBus()
# service activation
bmgr = dbus.Interface(bus.get_object('org.bluez', '/org/bluez'), 'org.bluez.Manager')
bus_id = bmgr.ActivateService('input')
imgr = dbus.Interface(bus.get_object(bus_id, '/org/bluez/input'), 'org.bluez.input.Manager')
# device creation
path = imgr.CreateDevice('xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx')
idev = dbus.Interface (bus.get_object(bus_id, path), 'org.bluez.input.Device')
# host initiated connection
idev.Connect()
EOF
# cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/bluetooth.remove_all << EOF
import dbus
bus = dbus.SystemBus()
# service activation
bmgr = dbus.Interface(bus.get_object('org.bluez', '/org/bluez'), 'org.bluez.Manager')
bus_id = bmgr.ActivateService('input')
imgr = dbus.Interface(bus.get_object(bus_id, '/org/bluez/input'), 'org.bluez.input.Manager')
devlist = imgr.ListDevices()
# removing all devices objects and file system stored data
for dev in devlist:
imgr.RemoveDevice(dev)
EOF
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