building kde4-baseapps

[Ian Wadham]

On 04/03/2014, at 12:35 PM, James Linder wrote:
> On 4 Mar 2014, at 4:00 am, macports-users-request at lists.macosforge.org wrote:
>> It is trivial to make Linux boot on a Mac - I have a number of Mac Pros booting into Ubuntu at work. Either single, double or triple (or more) boot. Same hard drive or different ones. You can use rEFIt for help in choosing a boot partition.
> 
> Actually it is extraordinarily non trivial:
> 
> I have an iMac 27.
> OpenSuse - does not see the USB at all
> Arch - EFI boot and boots sweetly
> Ubuntu - does not see the USB - many methods to make USB including http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx
> XUbuntu - does see the USB (thats bizare, many checks - it’s true!) but after boot ‘cannot find a live filesystem')
> 
> Every USB stick works elsewhere even on EFI bios machines :-(
> James

Ah yes. And there is no CD/DVD drive on the latest MacBook Pro Retina
models. HDMI, SDXC, Thunderbolt anyone?

Cheers, Ian W.