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#INSTALL LINUX ON MAC FROM USB INSTALL#I’m going to make it a lot easier for you to install Linux on your old PPC Macs. It took me a couple weeks of research, asking questions of our Linux on PowerPC Macs group on Facebook, and experimenting before I could finally boot into Linux 14.04 from a thumb drive. use nomodeset)Īlternatively, burning a CD and installing via an external CD-drive will work fine on the Macbook Air 3,2.It’s not particularly easy to create a bootable USB flash drive so you can try running Linux on a PowerPC Mac. (Here you might want to press F6 to change parameters, e.g. Select Pingo/Windows logo: Install should start.dd the whole USB stick to that partition. ![]() Create a separate partition on the Airs HD.Create a bootable start disk using Ubuntu and a USB stick.Notice that both the computers built in boot loader and rEFIt will identify the USB device as a Windows device, but that’s not a problem and expected.Ī work around to the-usb-device-is-not-booting-problem is to: After doing this the USB should then appear as a bootable device while holding in the alt or c key when you are rebooting the computer. a USB stick) to show up at all in the boot menu you also may have to reboot/turn on/off the computer a couple of times and also re sync the partition tables using rEFIt. When booting of the USB device the following message or something similar will appear: “Missing operating system” and the process is auto-matically halted. Please notice: While all of the info and above commands are executed properly on a MacBook Air 3,2 (that is the 2010 version 13″ version of the Air) the end result will not create a bootable USB device, at least not with the image for Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit. Restart your Mac and press alt while the Mac is restarting to choose the USB-Stick Start the Disk Utility.app and unmount (don’t eject) the drive.Īnd remove your flash media when the command completesġ2. ![]()
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