Re: installing Fedora 21 or 22 on a MacBook Air 7,1

2015-07-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: > On 07/30/2015 09:00 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: >> >>> On a sidenote livecd-to-disk didn't work as the MBA didn't see the >>> stick. dd however did work and booted. >> >> Those seem co

Re: installing Fedora 21 or 22 on a MacBook Air 7,1

2015-07-29 Thread Frederic Muller
On 07/30/2015 09:00 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: > >> On a sidenote livecd-to-disk didn't work as the MBA didn't see the >> stick. dd however did work and booted. > > Those seem contradictory. The stick is a block device. In order for dd > to

Re: installing Fedora 21 or 22 on a MacBook Air 7,1

2015-07-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: > On a sidenote livecd-to-disk didn't work as the MBA didn't see the > stick. dd however did work and booted. Those seem contradictory. The stick is a block device. In order for dd to use it, it had to show up the same as for livecd-iso-to-

Re: installing Fedora 21 or 22 on a MacBook Air 7,1

2015-07-29 Thread Frederic Muller
On 07/30/2015 01:16 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: > >> Sorry if my email wasn't clear enough: there is no disk to install >> Fedora to. The SSD drive is simply invisible. > > It's possible it's being misidentified and "stolen" by multipathd and

Re: installing Fedora 21 or 22 on a MacBook Air 7,1

2015-07-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: > Sorry if my email wasn't clear enough: there is no disk to install > Fedora to. The SSD drive is simply invisible. It's possible it's being misidentified and "stolen" by multipathd and will need to be explicitly blacklisted. Doing that is

Re: installing Fedora 21 or 22 on a MacBook Air 7,1

2015-07-29 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:07:26PM +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: > On 07/29/2015 08:07 PM, CS DBA wrote: > > I installed Fedora 20 on a macbook air like this: > > > > 1) burned the KDE live dvd, > > > > 2) plugged the dvd player into the mac usb port > > > > 3) held down the option button while

Re: installing Fedora 21 or 22 on a MacBook Air 7,1

2015-07-29 Thread Frederic Muller
On 07/29/2015 08:07 PM, CS DBA wrote: > I installed Fedora 20 on a macbook air like this: > > 1) burned the KDE live dvd, > > 2) plugged the dvd player into the mac usb port > > 3) held down the option button while I boot the macbook > > 4) when it comes up with the boot options choose the Fedo

Re: installing Fedora 21 or 22 on a MacBook Air 7,1

2015-07-29 Thread CS DBA
I installed Fedora 20 on a macbook air like this: 1) burned the KDE live dvd, 2) plugged the dvd player into the mac usb port 3) held down the option button while I boot the macbook 4) when it comes up with the boot options choose the Fedora DVD (it takes a few min before it shows up) 5) boot

Re: installing Fedora 21 or 22 on a MacBook Air 7,1

2015-07-29 Thread Frederic Muller
On 07/29/2015 07:01 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 04:41:04PM +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have been struggling installing Fedora on a friend's MBA as the local >> SSD doesn't seem to be recognized. I found a few posts online with >> various degrees of luck, unfortu

Re: installing Fedora 21 or 22 on a MacBook Air 7,1

2015-07-29 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 04:41:04PM +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: > Hi! > > I have been struggling installing Fedora on a friend's MBA as the local > SSD doesn't seem to be recognized. I found a few posts online with > various degrees of luck, unfortunately they never mentioned with MBA is > used a

installing Fedora 21 or 22 on a MacBook Air 7,1

2015-07-29 Thread Frederic Muller
Hi! I have been struggling installing Fedora on a friend's MBA as the local SSD doesn't seem to be recognized. I found a few posts online with various degrees of luck, unfortunately they never mentioned with MBA is used and that didn't work for me. Does anyone has (positive?) experience on the to