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Installing ubuntu on a mac no usb mac os#
Installing ubuntu on a mac no usb no cd#
Installing ubuntu on a mac no usb install#
Installing ubuntu on a mac no usb driver#

If you have a Core2 Duo Mac (as oppossed to the Core Duo), it is capable of using the AMD64 (64bit) CD otherwise you have to use the standard version.

However since your iMac is a Core Duo it will need a 32bit Ubuntu as noted on Ubuntu's Mac Community documentation. Since your iMac is an intel one, you can use a standard Ubuntu ISO built for any x86 PC. Ubuntu for Intel Macs and additionally the Ubuntu Intel Mac CommunityHelpPages looks to be loaded with lots of resources that you might find helpful. You should checkout a Ubuntu instructions for Intel Macs, so no need to worry about a BIOS your running EFI. Looks like you have all you will need already, you were just missing the following bits of information.

Installing ubuntu on a mac no usb mac os#

So I ask, what would you do? The only thing is it should not involve any money (I know Mac software is rarely free) which also excludes getting any Mac OS unless I can use a free macos.img for VM or restore the original Mac for free. So other than finding someone that has a Mac I have no solution.Which makes me think that the scenario where someone like me has Mac hardware but no Mac OS is extremely rare. I can't find much software on Linux/Windows to substitute to those tools, for example among others converting an.So assuming blindly that the Mac hardware/firmware works normally, I don't have any Mac OS to use any of the tools that I found on different tutorials for building a bootable drive for Macs.When I start the machine and press Option, the first and only thing I see is an old corrupted Windows XP partition and not a single option or additional information. There is no BIOS on Macs, so I can't set boot settings or even see if it detects my USB drive.

Installing ubuntu on a mac no usb no cd#

No CD means the only boot drive I could use is USB.

This PC with Ubuntu 12.04 and an old Windows Vista partition.

An empty PC (17" Intel iMac) with broken CD drive.

Installing ubuntu on a mac no usb driver#

Wifi doesn’t work out of the box, so from another computer (or your OSX install) download the driver and its dependencies (dkms, libc6-dev, linux-libc-dev), then copy them all to a flash drive and boot back into Ubuntu.

Installing ubuntu on a mac no usb install#

Note that the wifi won’t work (we’ll fix this in the next step), so don’t try to install updates during the installation process, unless you have a separate usb wifi dongle or ethernet.

Once it boots to the Ubuntu Desktop Open the “Install Ubuntu” icon and follow the installation instructions.

Select “Try Ubuntu” (not “Install Ubuntu”) from the menu.

Insert the USB, and hold ‘option’ key while booting.

Download the Ubuntu 17.10 ISO, and create a bootable USB drive.

There are plenty of guides, if you get stuck on this step, including the Ubuntu wiki. You’ll want to leave the empty space as “free space” (it will get formatted during the Ubuntu installation). Just open Disk Utility in OSX, and resize your existing OSX partition, so that there’s some free space for Ubuntu. It continues to simplify the installation process, and seems quite stable so far.

I did a fresh install of 17.10 on my Macbook Pro Retina mid-2012 (rMBP 10,1). I skipped 17.04, since it didn’t seem to add much that I was excited about, but 17.10 has switched from Unity back to Gnome3, so I wanted to give it a try.