How to install Linux on an Intel Mac with Boot Camp

Want to see what all the Linux hype is about? Want to be able to take part in the Linux based geek conversations around the water cooler at work? Feel left out when your friends are raving about the latest release of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora, or Mandriva? Run a Intel based Mac? No problem!

The most straightforward way I have found to deal with booting multiple operating systems on an EFI based Intel Mac is to install the rEFIt boot manager in OSX. While in Mac OSX, visit the rEFIt website, download the Mac disk image, mount the image, and install…