I'm looking to install Ubuntu 11.10 on a Macbook Pro (identifier is 7,1). However, I can't seem to find a good guide on how I'm supposed to partition my computer to use Ubuntu. In the screenshots of windows installations, you can see a slider to allocate space for both OS's, but when I boot the installation CD, I only get the option to erase the disk or manually partition. As for manually doing it, I'm not brave enough to potentially fuck up my drive and have to restore everything from Time Machine. So, anyone care to guide me and/or link to a guide? Also, I have all the latest software updates and such. I've installed all the available firmware updates and such, and I've had OS X 10.7 for a long time now.

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Thanks in advance! You can no longer comment on this thread as it was closed due to no activity for a month. I should be an expert at this. I've done this so many times! Open up /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility, then choose your hard drive from the sidebar. Go to the partition tab and choose 2 partitions from the menu or click the little plus sign. Set the partition size on the right as well as the format.

Any format is good as Linux will reformat it on install. Around 20GB should be fine. Now insert your CD/DVD with the Linux disk image on it, and reboot. Press and hold the option key as soon as you here the start up tone. When a list comes up of the bootable drives, use the arrow keys to highlight the CD/DVD and press enter.

Your computer will boot into an live image of Linux Ubuntu. Then double click the install Linux icon on the desktop. Follow the prompts and remember to choose the right partition to install your OS on. Then just follow some more prompts and you're done! To switch between OS's, press option key during startup (as done previously) and choose the right disk to startup from. You may eject your install disk. REFIt is pretty ugly xD But it did do a wonderful job of booting from my USB drive.

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Although it was such a pain to get right. Had to run the system from a virtual machine to convert the.iso to a hybrid version that can boot on a MacBook Air, then write it to the USB Drive. Took 3 days of FAILED trial and error till I found the method that worked. It was painfully fun, but was kinda pointless considering I ended up restoring my system 3 days later because it was beginning to cause problems when I went to boot into Snow Leopard. I love Macs, they are wonderful computers. But boy are they stubborn when it comes to getting Linux systems to run xD.