But just last week, Asahi Linux announced their first alpha release. Usually, I sell off my old workstation to offset the cost of the new one. After upgrading my main workstation to a Mac Studio, I decided to break tradition.
HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON MAC MINI MAC OS X
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. Installing the Asahi Linux Alpha on my M1 Mac mini. 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. Boot from the Ubuntu CD and proceed with installation. iso file using Disk Utility Boot from the Tiger DVD and partition the HDD into 2 volumes, one marked as 'Free Space'. It is also a good solution for older Macs that can no longer run official MacOS operating systems using bootcamp though the process is a bit more complex. 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. I have a PowerPC Mac Mini and this is what I did to install Ubuntu: Download the Ubuntu. Answer (1 of 2): Is the question, which computer should you run it on Then, whichever one you wish.
Some of us would like to completely wipe out MAC OS X from a MAC computer and do clean install of Linux.
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