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Ruschelzone

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Registered: 2014-02-28

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Installing Arch on a MacBook

Hello everyone!
I want to install Arch on a MacBook 2.1 but the keyboard is not working when I boot from the CD. It works perfectly fine on other computers. How can I install Arch anyhow?

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,175

Re: Installing Arch on a MacBook

It seems you need an external usb-keyboard to fix this; or you could try rebooting a few times as it seems this problem isn't very consistent

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Installing Arch on a MacBook

I have never tried Arch on Apple hardware.  Have you keyboard before the boot?
Might this be your problem?
If you use a different live distro that works, one can install Arch from another working Linux system. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ting_Linux

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Ruschelzone

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Registered: 2014-02-28

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Re: Installing Arch on a MacBook

An external keyboard didn't work as well. But I'm trying to install from an old LiveCD I found on my desk. That should do the trick, hopefully. Thanks for your answers!