Painless Dual Booting with RHEL 5 and a MacBookPro
I know there are many OS X users curious about running Linux on their Mac hardware, but are overwhelmed with the configuration options. There are also many Linux users who want to work on one machine and would like to dual-boot OS X and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Here’s one scenario—in the animation industry. Maybe you want to work on OS X for video editing but want to boot RHEL 5 for your Animation Software, and Gnome/KDE specific open source applications. You may also be a developer who wants to work in and develop cross-platform applications. RHEL 5 is a great developer platform and now you can work in both worlds.
Enough talk, lets get your MacbookPro dual-booting. These instructions are specifically for dual-booting with MacbookPro, but there should only be minor changes to apply these instructions to different models of Mac Hardware.
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