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I think a USB flash drive can be used somehow, but I happen to have a USB DVD burner, so I used this instead for simplicity. With the optical drive connected and the Windows install disk in the drive, reboot the Mac and press and hold the option key when the computer turns on. There should be a picture of an optical disk labeled WINDOWS that should be selected. It might take a little while (~30 seconds) for the system to find the disk if it does not appear right away. Click through the first few steps until you are able to choose Custom Install. Select the partition labeled WINDOWS, format it as NTFS (you may have to click some link to enable advanced features to be able to do this), and click through the rest of the install process. This should be pretty straightforward. You should be able to select the WINDOWS partition whenever you need to reboot at the rEFIt screen. When the Windows installation is complete, install the drivers that were copied to the USB drive earlier.
Install Fedora 16
This was by far the most challenging part to get right, but hopefully this will make it pretty straightforward.
Install Fedora 16
Insert the Fedora 16 DVD into the drive and reboot the computer, pressing the option key when the computer powers on. Two optical disk images may pop up, but the one labeled WINDOWS should be the one selected. When the Fedora installer comes up, press the tab key and follow the steps displayed on the screen to add the nomodeset kernel parameter. The screen may remain black for a few minutes, but the installer should start up. When prompted, select the Use Free Space option if the LINUX partition was removed earlier, otherwise the partitions should manually be set. When prompted, the boot loader should be installed to the disk (mine was /dev/sda), not the partition.
Sync MBR
After the Fedora installer is complete, cycle through the icons at the rEFIt screen and select the MBR tool. It should state that the MBR is out of sync, so it should be synced up. I only had to sync up the MBR once, but again, I had to restart twice for this to take effect for some reason. After the computer reboots, all operating systems should be successfully installed. At the rEFIt screen, selecting Linux or Windows should boot into the Grub2 menu, at which point the proper OS can be selected.
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If rEFIt is removed, the option has to be held when the computer boots and the WINDOWS hard drive selected in order to see the Grub2 menu.
Fedora Tweaks
Enable WiFi
WiFi and sound do not work out of the box. I was able to connect to the Internet via my phone over Bluetooth, but a USB Ethernet dongle can also be used. A simple yum update and reboot should enable the WiFi.
Enabled Sound
The sound modules all get loaded correctly, but the speakers seem to be muted for some reason. Run alsamixer -c0 as your user (does not have to be done as root) and make sure the main speakers are not set to MM. This can be toggled by selecting the main speakers with the arrow keys and pressing the m key. The up and down arrows can be used to set the speakers to the desired level. I set mine to 60. When this is done, run alsactl store 0 as root. Reboot just to make sure everything still works, but it should.
Other Notes
The brightness keys do not work. I have not tested any advanced functions like hibernate, stand by, etc.
Posted in Mac Tagged Ubuntu, macbook, Mac, Lion, Linux, fedora, arch, boot, os x, windows, air, windows 7, 16, triple, dual, snow, leopard, bootcamp, refit, efi, uefi
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I have a 3rd generation MacBook Air running Snow Leopard that I wanted to upgrade to Lion via a clean install. To do this, I wanted to burn a DVD that I would be able to use on my other MacBook as well. There are many guides online (heres a good one from Lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/5823096/how-to-burn-your-own-lion-install-dvd-or-flash-drive), but I couldnt get the DVD I burned to boot! I also found an InstallESD.dmg inside the InstallESD.dmg the guide says to burn, but this did not work for me as well. In the end, I ended up having to use the flash drive method. Good luck!
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