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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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[quivo]

Have you ever installed an OS--any OS before? If so, you should be fine to install Ubuntu. From what little I remember of 6.0, all you need to do is insert the LiveCD/DVD and follow instructions. If you want a detailed walkthrough for installing Ubuntu on a Macbook Pro, you can pretty much google for that and find decent tutorials. I remember there being a ton of resources out there when I installed Ubuntu on my now-defunct PC laptop, so it should be even better now.

I will say this, though: installing Ubuntu isn't any kind of surefire way to learning about Linux, and it strikes me as a pretty roundabout way to do it. The Terminal app on the Mac and a simple tutorial on what stuff like ls, dir and cd mean and what the Linux filesystem structure looks like would probably be more helpful if you just want to learn about Linux.

[zenten]

What is the specific model of mac that you're using?