Hi Brice, I've always run ROS on my Mac using dual boot with OS X 10.6 and Ubuntu 10.04. I never had any problems. If you need some help doing the partitioning just ask, it's piece of cake, after all, it's a Mac ;) Best regards, Gonçalo Cabrita ISR University of Coimbra Portugal On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Nathaniel Lewis wrote: > My Installation process for Ubuntu 11.04 > > When I installed Ubuntu, I did not want to mess with the EFI parts of the > Linux kernel, so I just bootcamped the Mac.  Bootcamp is how you would > generally install windows onto a Mac, as it is BIOS emulation.  Use Mac OSX > to partition the drive using Bootcamp Assistant ( > /Applications/Utilities/Bootcamp Assistant.app ) so that you are not worried > about partitioning problems.  Just pop in the Ubuntu installer (I recommend > 64 bit because all modern Macs are 64 bit) disk (LiveCD is fine as well) and > hit "Begin Installation" from Bootcamp Assistant after partitioning is > complete.  If you missed this, just reboot the Mac and hold the Option key > (Alt on a PC keyboard) as you turn it on and it will show all boot devices > and click on the CD.  If you have yet to insert the CD, do it now.  From > here just proceed with the normal installation process.  Two important > exceptions though.  When presented with the options for partitioning, click > on "Something Else."  You need to find the partition which was created (It > will be Fat32 and probably the last partition on the disk (/dev/sda3 for > me)) and use that for the root filesystem and format to Ext2,3, or 4.  You > also install grub to the MBR, even though it doesn't actually exist.  To > boot into Ubuntu, hold down Option when you turn the computer on and select > "Windows," even though you installed Linux.  The Mac will remember the last > operating system that was booted and will autoboot that upon restart.  So to > switch back to Mac OSX, you will have to do the above processes again. > > Nathaniel Lewis > > On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Nathaniel Lewis > wrote: >> >> I think I remember how to do it - just giving my solution a go on my >> Macbook before I say anything.  Don't want to make a fool of myself. >> Nathaniel Lewis >> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 7:29 PM, brice rebsamen >> wrote: >>> >>> HI >>> >>> I'm about to buy a laptop for the project (obviously we will be >>> running ROS everyday). There is a Mac culture here. But I have never >>> had a Mac before. If I get one, I will probably install Ubuntu on it >>> to run ROS, since it seems the Mac version of ROS is still not fully >>> running. I don't want to struggle with ROS installation. I am very >>> familiar with Linux but I have never installed it on a Mac, and I know >>> that one of my friends had trouble with that (I think the partitioning >>> phase was the problem). >>> >>> I'd like to get some feedback from the people on that mailing list. Is >>> there anybody here using Mac and ROS (with or without Ubuntu) who >>> could comment? How easy is it to install Ubuntu on a Mac? Once this is >>> done, does everything works fine, especially as far as ROS is >>> concerned? >>> >>> In the past 6 months I was working under Linux 64 bits (on a PC), and >>> not everything was as smooth as the 32 bits version, there were a few >>> tricks here and there... >>> >>> Regards >>> Brice >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ros-users mailing list >>> ros-users@code.ros.org >>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > >