Install CentOS on a Apple Mac Mini
From ipinfinity.com
Intel Mac Mini installation instructions for CentOS 5:
1) Boot Mac OS X install CD. Click on Utilities in the upper left corner and select disk utilities.
2) Click on the Entire disk, select partition tab, then select 2 partitions. Click the first, choose MS-DOS (set the size to .1GB to get it smaller than the 8.XX it wants to leave it at). Then click options and select "Master Boot Record" to support booting other OS (3rd option down). Then click, "Partition" when you are done in the "partition" tab. If you click outside of this tab, you'll lose this information.
3) Once you are partitioned this way, when you reboot, hold down "C" to boot off the CentOS 5 DVD.
4) Boot per normal. Partition disks, DO NOT DELETE THE MS-DOS PARTITION. When it asks about Grub, make sure to select "Advanced" at the bottom of the window and then Next. On the next page, it asks if you want to install in the MBR on /dev/sda, select that one. Don't pick an individual partition.
5) Go through the install, select how you want to build the system. After the reboot, it should just "work". It takes a minute to get to Grub, so be patient. If you see a blinking folder, you missed a step and have to "reinstall" the entire system.
