placeholder for centos 5.4 install on macbook pro.
Why CentOS 5.4 64bit you ask? Because that is the production system that I use for my website. As I have mentioned on some other posts, I try not to live on the bleeding edge unless there is good reason. I had previously ran fedora on a live system, and the updates just killed me.
My macbook pro is a late 2009 model (I got in in October) 2.8 GHz with 4Gb mem and 320Gb drive (soon to be 120Gb patriot SSD).
First of all partition the disk ahead of time. Just roughly the command is:
put in centos disk into drive
boot the computer, and hold down ‘c’
enter (default install)
Next
Next
Next
Choose create custom layout (from the top combo box)
next
click on /dev/sda3
click edit
set mount point to /
change format partition to ext3
click ok
click next
click yes
click format
click next
next
choose location Next
root pass next
pick packages ..next
next (does the install)
(cd will eject when done)
click Reboot
My system hun on “Restarting system.” so after a few minutes I held the power button down for5 seconds to power it down.
the started back up
synced the gpt
click reboot on the refit menu