I'd suggest 1.5x RAM for swap (minimum 4GB to be safe), about 20-25GB for /, the rest for /home. You can set up the partitions before installing with GParted (or KDE Partition Manager if using KDE) or you can do this using the installer. I'll look in to this later, no trackpad connected on this machine.
Most important question - is there anyway I can install Mint using Home as a separate partition? I know this was possible in the good old days of Linux, but the newer documentation for Mint does not seem to have any mention about how to do this.
The trackpad on the MacBook Pro - can I sue similar gestures on Lunix as works on MacOS? Like, two fingered click for Right-click, three finger swipes to switch between multiple desktops etc.?ģ. Is there anyway I can "connect" to that iMac file system to be able to wirelessly transfer files from the iMac to the MacBook Pro? There is nothing I could find on google or here about this, hence the question.Ģ. I have an iMac on the home wifi network that this MacBook Pro will be on.
But still the display was dark.Īfter a while I powered the laptop down by pressing the power button and booted back into Mac OSX to type this post.Īlso, I would like to hear from others who have done something similar - my main concerns are the following:ġ. The volume up an down keys did make a sound. I tried to test a few keys to see if they made any sound. However, the screen stayed blank and never came on. The screen flashed a few of the usual linux boot messages and then went dark stayed dark for a while and then I heard the Lunix Mint splash-screen chime. The only difference between the linked video and my instance was the distro used - I used Linux Mint instead of Korora.Įverything went well, and I booted from the USB stick. I created the USB boot stick using the instructions from this video: In order to test it I first thought I'd boot from a USB drive and see if everything works properly. I am interested in converting my 2010 MacBook Pro to a complete single-boot Linux machine.