#GEDIT MAC OS X YOSEMITE INSTALL#
If you choose to wipe the whole Mac, I recommend you should chose “Erase disk and install Linux Mint” / “Ubuntu” in the partition management section and leave LVM un-ticked.ġ4. And leave the boot loader installation device as as it is (bottom dropdown in partition management section). So if you choose to have both Mac and Linux you can just split the partition you created in the first steps of this guide to two, for an example one “ swap” (of at least 1 to 8GB, or whatever suits you) partition and one “ /” (root) partition. Continue as per normal Ubuntu / Linux mint installation except the partitions section where you should have a partition for EFI boot partition. You will end up in the bootloader screen of the Mac, now plug in your bootable USB.
#GEDIT MAC OS X YOSEMITE PASSWORD#
You should end up with a password screen where you need to enter your Admin password.ġ2. Keep press “Option / alt” button when you hear the boot sound.ġ1. run “ diskutil eject /dev/diskN“, again N is the USB device number you used in the above steps. Then you gotta eject the USB, don’t just pull it out. This step will take a while, have a coffee and come back.ĩ. Making the bootable USB is easy, run “ sudo dd if=~/linux.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m”, again N is the USB device number as per Step 6. As per the above example it would be 2 so command would be “ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2″, make sure you get yours right!Ĩ. Now we gotta unmount the USB disk using this command before writing the image file we created in Step 3. Run “ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN“, where N is the USB device number from the above list. You should be able to distinguish your USB device from your hard drive because of the size, type name (it says usb_disk).ħ. Run “ diskutil list” without quotes and check the output, should look like the following example. Plug your USB of at least 2GB, some old USBs won’t boot so if this guide doesn’t work for your try it with a different USB.Ħ.
If the output file is called “” then rename it to “linux.img”ĥ. Then run “ hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/linux.img ~/linux.iso” without quotes.
#GEDIT MAC OS X YOSEMITE ISO#
Make sure the ISO file copied into your home directory of your Mac with the name linux.isoģ. Download the ISO from either Ubuntu or Linux Mint website (make sure you get the 64bit version).Ģ. Make a bootable USB of Ubuntu 14.04 or Mint 17 (Qiana), you can easily do this by following these instructions (on your Mac).ġ. And remember how much disk space you allocated for this partition as in the Ubuntu/Mint setup, you will have to point to this specific partition. If you choose to go with the first, then make a partition on your Mac, of at least 10GB for Linux. If you read my previous guide on getting Ubuntu installed on Mac mini guide and thought it was long and too many things to configure, relax because you only have to run few commands with the latest Ubuntu 14.04 / Linux mint 17 distributions.įirstly, remember that you can either split your Mac partitions using DiskUtil and have a separate partitions for your Linux or you can wipe the whole disk and have just Linux on your Mac. Installing Ubuntu 14.04 based distribution on a Mac (or any EFI based computer) has become very straightforward.
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