Keep Ubuntu replace Mac OS X

[Nuctorn]

Hi,
I got a MacBook pro 7.1, and got Mac osx lion and Ubuntu 12.04 lts installeer using rrefit . Now i would like to install Windows 8 and keep Ubuntu. Someone any idea how i could do this?

Thx

[Apple2]

Just wipe the OSX partition and install win8 through the DVD after formatting the partition in Ubuntu. I see no reason why this wouldn't work, but check with someone else before doing it. And by the way, I'd install Win7 instead. Win8 seems like it dropped a lot of features.

[Nuctorn]

Oke thnx, i'm going to try it. If someone else has experience with it, help is always welcome. (I'll post how i did it if i succeed)

[AppleMacFinder]

Why do you need Ubuntu on Mac? Mac OS X is 100% UNIX certified,
so all the terminal commands work in Mac OS as well. I don't get it.

[Nuctorn]

Originally Posted by AppleMacFinder

Why do you need Ubuntu on Mac? Mac OS X is 100% UNIX certified,
so all the terminal commands work in Mac OS as well. I don't get it.

I need it because, i need it for my thesis.(I'm in my last year industrial engineer in beglium, thesis=final big project). Xilinx does not support mac os x.
Xilinx supports debian distribution, but it works on ubunut as well after installing some missing libaries.

[throAU]

Originally Posted by AppleMacFinder

Why do you need Ubuntu on Mac? Mac OS X is 100% UNIX certified,
so all the terminal commands work in Mac OS as well. I don't get it.

In addition to what the OP posted:

Linux is not Unix.

Even if we discount the fact that the app may be compiled only for linux, and was only a shell script...

The userspace commands are all GNU, whereas OS X is BSD. The command line switches are often different, behaviour of a lot of the command line tools is different, etc.

OS X is more true to unix and 100% unix certified sure.

But Linux isn't.

[AppleMacFinder]

From my experience: every time I found a Linux program that I want to run on my Mac,
I just compiled it from source (because of lack of pre-built binaries) and everything worked.

Of course, if you don't have the source (probably, this Xilinx thing is closed-source)
then there could be a problem.

[murphychris]

Originally Posted by Nuctorn

Hi,
I got a MacBook pro 7.1, and got Mac osx lion and Ubuntu 12.04 lts installeer using rrefit . Now i would like to install Windows 8 and keep Ubuntu. Someone any idea how i could do this?

Yes, I've written about how to do this in the forums before. I advise against it unless you're really brave because it's totally convoluted. You do realize that there isn't support from Apple for Windows 8 yet? And that unless you do the necessary leg work, that it will boot on Apple hardware in CSM-BIOS mode and thus be subject to some not so insignificant limitations? You're almost certainly better off natively booting an OS that you can boot in EFI mode, and then KVMing the others. Of course, if you can figure out how to EFI boot Ubuntu and Windows, then that's ideal but that's not the usual case.