Posted by kecoak on Dec 29, 2007 in
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BT3 run smoothly on my Black MacBook 13″, hardware support is pretty impressive and I have no trouble at all installing it on the system. Just pick Run With Graphical (KDE) on booting and you’ll get nice system installed with it’s graphical view. I had lot of trouble manage resolution with BT2 or Gentoo GNU/Linux on MacBook because of it’s Intel Graphic adapter, but BT3 handle it nicely so I can got 1280×800 resolution. MacBook uses atheros chipset and BT3 detected it automatically, and Wireless Assistant detect my private wireless LAN which use WPA2 with PSK automatically (this is improvement of BT2). But there’s still such a weird bugs with wireless assistant where I have to try 2 times before connecting and associated into my private wlan, wireless assistant always failed in a first attempt. MacBook use special keys (apple) and BT3 handle it well, i.e: I can move to console based from graphical using ctrl-alt-fn + F1. Almost all software inside also up-to-date so if you wanna install your favorite application, you should have no much trouble in dependencies. For real installation into harddisk, BT3 also offer to restore the original MBR after it successfully installed into the disk. So if you had another operating system running before, no worried about that because BT3 has option to restore the original boot loader back into MBR. All you need to do is copy the lilo.MBR into some removable media and copy into another system (ie. Microsoft Windows), then you can edit the boot loader of Microsoft Windows to add the lilo.MBR for booting BT3. One thing which remain not so well for me is graphical booting after real installation. It’s not as good as graphical booting when we use live cd. I still haven’t tweak some configuration in lilo, but having nice graphical booting on default installation would be...