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 <brice.rebsamen@gmail.com>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
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