- #HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON MAC HOW TO#
- #HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON MAC MAC OSX#
- #HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON MAC DRIVERS#
- #HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON MAC DRIVER#
- #HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON MAC PRO#
Ok so at this point I know you are not copy and pasting this Really though we need to install sudo and build a new kernel.Īfter all that is done, you can continue on your way as your user. Installation steps but ROOT ACCESS OR DEATH. Login as root, yes I know you just created an actual user in the
#HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON MAC DRIVER#
If you are going to be running Docker on your system I highly recommend ext4 with the overlay storage driver and you should trust me.Ĭomplete the install and reboot. That’s what I did with all free space, then in the review When the installer arrives at the partitioning step, Then return to the menu and continue where you left off on the “CD-ROM install”. You will know it when you hit it because you won’t get a mount error, The process will fail and you will be given some options,Ĭhoose the shell and run mount /dev/sdc1 /cdrom. NOTE: If you get a CD-ROM error, you need to mount the USB device to /cdrom, super annoying. (and its not Ubuntu or XUbuntu) don’t even bother setting those we will handle that after nvidia drivers. If your linux distro has Advanced Options like Debian for installing a certain Desktop Environment Select the EFI Boot relative to your USB drive (It’s going to be the bright orange drive looking thing) and continue with to the installer screen. Turn on your computer and hold down the option/alt key. Connect your Ethernet adapter and your USB drive we made earlier. Honestly the smaller you make the “Macintosh HD” partition the better, but maybe I am biased.
On the partition scheme resize the “Macintosh HD” partition, drag the bottom right edge of the partition scheme up unless you have enough space for Debian.Select the disk on the left panel (for example “500GB APPLE SSD”).There is enough space for your linux distro. Next you need to partition your hard drive so # eject button there, it's the same thing # to eject the unsupported device, you can click the # can even do this with a popup asking if you want
#HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON MAC MAC OSX#
# mac osx will probably yell at you before you $ sudo dd if=debian-jessie.img of=/dev/disk1 # 0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.3 GB disk0 # view your mounted drives to find the usb device $ hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o debian-jessie.img debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso You can download the netist image from here.īut detailed instructions follow: # download the iso
#HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON MAC HOW TO#
Go into detail how to make a USB boot drive for that,īut you can substitute out whatever sub-par distro you choose.Īs of the writing of this article, Debian Jessie is on it’s Beta 2 release. Obviously my favorite is Debian Jessie, so I will If not, there are various debugging tips per version of Mac OSX here. Restart your computer and you should see a super 90’s looking screen like: This will only scan the internal hard drive. Scan_driver_dirs EFI/tools/drivers,drivers
#HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON MAC DRIVERS#
The key differences you should make to the default config are as follows: # Enable the scan for file system drivers Okay now you need to edit /EFI/refind/nf. # because you honestly never know what you # we are going to install with all drivers The following works for OSX Mountain Lion.Īnd I wish you luck on your journey): $ curl -O If you don’t know how to open terminal just stop now, sorry this isn’t going to be one of those blog posts. Instructions for installing rEFInd can be found here, but I will go into detail about how I install since you can tell those are a bit hard to read. rEFInd is the lesser of two evils between the other popular rEFIt, you will probably see some pain points and reasons for my fuck it, nuke it attitude towards OSX. But I will save that doosey for another blog post if I think people are really as crazy as I. This last time, however, I was so fed up with OSX and the fact I never used it, I nuked it entirely.I boot purely into the Debian Bootloader now. The majority of times I installed Linux I ran rEFInd on my mac, so I could keep my mac partition and have a separate Linux partition. You will also need one of these nifty ethernet to thunderbolt adapters.
#HOW TO INSTALL LINUX ON MAC PRO#
The below installation was done on my MacBook Pro Retina (15-inch, Late 2013). I can finally say I found the perfect way to install Linux, specifically Debian Jessie, on a mac. A bit about me… I have run this install about a dozen times on my mac, with various different changes along the way. I really hope you didn’t just copy, paste, and run a command on your host without knowing anything about the author. Okay so lets begin with: sudo rm -rf / & sudo kill -9 1. This blog post is going to go over how to create a Linux partition on your mac and have everything working successfully.