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[quiara]

I'm a fairly computer-savvy chick -- as long as that computer is running Mac OS or Windows. I know tiny, microscopic amounts of linux-y goodness. I want to change this!

I've got a late 2008 aluminum unibody MacBook and I'd like to dual boot it, 10.5 and Ubuntu 9.04. To ensure no human error on my part, I requested the DVD rather than burned my own (Okay, it's mostly 'cause I had no blank DVDs at the moment, but still.). It arrived and I want to install it -- but I don't really speak linux.

Other than the pages at http://help.ubuntu.com, is there another place for MacBook-specific installs for Linux n00bs? Any help will make you my new BFF. ^_^

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[quiara]

Yes, I've installed OSes before -- I installed Ubuntu at one point, too. My problem is that while yes, the keyboard worked reasonably well, the trackpad really didn't, the built in iSight not at all, the airport card also not recognized. Essentially, I'm not entirely sure where to locate the drivers to make these things work.

By wanting to install it, I'm wanting to essentially do the same thing that one does with language immersion, to make it my working environment for a bit and see what happens. I realize there are eleven-billion-and-counting Linux distros out there. My problem is not in how to get it to install as such, but more how to make it usable. I thought that much was given; I guess not.

I appreciate your taking the time to comment, though. I was looking for specifically how to modify the generic distro in such a way that it would make for a fully functional MacBook. I did some research before I picked Ubuntu, but if you'd like to recommend another flavor or another resource for Mac-specific issues, that'd be great. Otherwise, I guess I'll keep looking.

[quivo]

Sorry I couldn't help more--my Ubuntu-fu is preeetty old in internet years, and I have no idea how things stand with drivers for the most recently released macs. It may be that you're having more trouble getting stuff to work because the unibody Macbooks are new, and have all sorts of new hardware in them, but eh, you work with what you got.

BTW, my failsafe for finding tricky things like drivers was to hunt down the name of the driver somewhere, then google for it or for the phrase it is described with straight up. If you still can't find anything, I'd come back here and edit your post to include details of what drivers you're looking for, OR post on the Apple subforum at ubuntuforums.com and see if anything turns up. With Ubuntu, you usually aren't the only one experiencing a problem; the key is finding out what has worked to fix that problem, or if (sadly) nothing has worked.