[sf-lug] SF-LUG October 2025 Mtg, own dual-boot mini-project

[aaronco36 at sdf.org]

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SF-LUG October 2025 Meeting notice - for 2025-10-05 mtg
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San Francisco Linux Users' Group's next meeting is this upcoming Sunday,
October 5th, from 11:00 AM till 1:00 PM

Quoting the still current SF-LUG webpage www.sf-lug.org [1]
(current as of this writing) :
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* virtual remains:
https://meet.jit.si/sf-lug.org
Browser: one will need sufficiently recent version of, e.g.
Chromium, Chrome, or possibly Firefox - in any case one that well
supports WebRTC.
Dial-in (audio alternative or audio only): +1.512.647.1431
PIN: 524 338 639#
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OTOH, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> still has his highly relevant
comments available for review within his June 2024 posting [2] on the
actual Jitsi Meet "requirements".

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If any of you reading this possibly wish to start meeting in-person again
-- and are physically able to do so -- at SF's Cafe Enchante, please feel
free to respond on this mailing-list and inform others similarly
interested before this Sunday's meeting :-]

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Own current mini-project for myself is something of a continuation of last
month's mimicking the native MacOS X 11.6 El Capitan installed on an old
Apple MacBook Air laptop with a Linux distro on another machine, but this
time attempting a MacOS X 11.6 and Linux dual-boot installation on the
selfsame "old Apple MacBook Air laptop".

Several pertinent details of the MacBook Air laptop for this.
MacBook Air 6-2 with a 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, a
500GB SSD drive, and Intel HD Graphics 5000 display of 1536MB RAM.
When I run 'system_profiler SPSerialATADataType' from the Darwin kernel
15.6.0 terminal commandline I see the 500.28GB SSD's GPT partition-type
volume details as
- disk0s1....209.7MB....MS-DOS FAT32 EFI partition
- disk0s2....499.42GB....Journaled HFS+ Apple_HFS main "/" partition
(420.71GB free diskspace _currently_ available)
- disk0s3....650MB....Journaled HFS+ Apple_Boot "Recovery HD"

Under the MacOS X 11.6 System Profiler, the AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi interface
'en0' apparently shows a Broadcom BCM4360 v1.0 chipset :-\

Am thinking that I can reduce disk0s2 down to ~160GB (approx. double its
_current_ 80GB disk usage) and then create a Linux partition of 320GB+ for
the dual-boot install.
Desired dual-boot Linux DE choices are based upon XFCE and/or LXQt.
Ordered distro preferences are 1) Linux Mint XFCE, 2) Lubuntu (LXQt Ubuntu),
3) Debian GNU/Linux 'trixie' w/ both XFCE +and+ LXQt.

As "DuckDuckGo is my friend" ;-], here are some relevant references
quickly found thru an initial DDG search:
- How to Install Linux on a MacBook (M1/M2/M3 & Intel) – The Complete 2025
Guide [3]
- Linux Mint on MacBook: A Comprehensive Guide [4]
- Install Linux Mint on Mac [Dual Boot] [5]
- How to install Linux Mint alongside OSX on the MacBook Air [6]
- Ubuntu 18 installation on a MacBook 6.2 (mid 2010) has graphics and
overheating issues [7]
- InstallingDebianOnAppleMacBookAir6-2 [8]

Other hints/suggestions/tips certainly welcome :-)

-Aaron


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REFERENCES
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[1]https://www.sf-lug.org/
[2]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2025q3/016114.html
[3]https://www.linuxnest.com/how-to-install-linux-on-a-macbook-m1-m2-m3-intel-the-complete-2025-guide/
[4]https://linuxvox.com/blog/linux-mint-macbook/
[5]https://linuxsimply.com/linux-basics/os-installation/dual-boot/linux-mint-on-mac/
[6]https://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2014/07/how-to-install-linux-mint-alongside-osx.html
[7]https://askubuntu.com/questions/1407974/ubuntu-18-installation-on-a-macbook-6-2-mid-2010-has-graphics-and-overheating
[8]https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple/MacBookAir/6-2
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