- INSTALL LINUX ON MAC OS X HOW TO
- INSTALL LINUX ON MAC OS X MAC OS X
- INSTALL LINUX ON MAC OS X MAC OS
INSTALL LINUX ON MAC OS X MAC OS
INSTALL LINUX ON MAC OS X MAC OS X
Let’s see what you need to for a bootable USB: Step 1: Format the USB driveĪpple is known for defining its own standards and no surprises that Mac OS X has its own file system type known as Mac OS Extended or HFS Plus. Following all the steps carefully will have you going. I used this method when Etcher did not exist.īe careful while using the command. This is an old method but evergreen method. The first option is for entering the live Ubuntu session Method 2: Create bootable Ubuntu USB in macOS using command line You should see the grub screen with option to boot into live Ubuntu session (the first option). If you see two EFI Boot options, choose either of them. At start up when the Apple tune starts up, press and hold option (or alt) key. Step 4: Booting from the live Ubuntu USB on macOS Once the purpose of Linux USB is over, you can use Gparted tool in macOS or Linux to format this USB back to normal.Īs long as Etcher gives you a success message about flash completion, no need to worry about it. It’s just that the USB is now in a format your macOS does not like and hence it complains. When the process completes, you should see a message that the “ disk you inserted was not readable by this computer“. It will take a few minutes at the most to complete the process. If it does not, click on the ‘Target’ button and select the correct USB device.īrowse to the downloaded Linux ISO file and hit the flash button. It should automatically recognize the plugged in USB (unless there are more than one). Make sure that there is no important data on it because it will be formatted. Installing Etcher on macOS Step 3: Using Etcher to create bootable Linux USB Drag the Etcher icon to the Applications icon. Double click on the downloaded file and it will open the installer.
INSTALL LINUX ON MAC OS X HOW TO
As a macOS user you probably already know how to install DMG file. I have no doubt clean Windows 7 or 8 install would also work (you may need the drivers from Bootcamp though).įor those who would prefer to keep MAC OS X and multi-boot with Windows and LinuxMint instead, you can look at my post below.It is downloaded in DMG format. I also successfully installed Centos 6.5 following the steps above. Everything seems to be working fine (including wireless on MAC Mini) Boot from LinuxMint DVD by pressing option key and power on. Go to Disk Utility, select the hard disk, go to partition tab, select say 1 partition from partition layout menu, you may want to change format to fat, AND (most importantly) click Options and select MBR (this would make the HD bootable for Linux/Windows OS). Boot from installation DVD (or from Recovery partition on the newer MACs) by pressing option key and powering onĢ. I installed LinuxMint Petra 64-bit Cinnamon on MAC Mini (mid 2010) and I'm pretty sure the steps below will work on any MAC computer.ġ. Some of us would like to completely wipe out MAC OS X from a MAC computer and do clean install of Linux.