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Select Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer to get into the full Ubuntu interface. I recommend you plug in a USB mouse at this point so you can right-click. At the rEFIt boot menu, you can choose to boot Linux from CD. Pop the Ubuntu CD into your computer and reboot. There are, however, two crucial steps you must get right.īefore getting started on the install, however, we need to get rid of the FAT32 formatting of the Boot Camp partition. Run Ubuntu Installerįor the most part, this process is exactly the same as you would do on a PC. OK, we’re finally ready to kick off the Ubuntu install. Once it is complete, reboot the Mac and verify that you get a screen that looks something like the following (it won’t have a Tux icon yet and shouldn’t have a Windows icon either). Go ahead and download the Mac disk image and run the installer package. In order to fix the system’s Master Boot Record ( MBR) after the Ubuntu install is complete, we need to briefly install rEFIt, a custom bootloader for EFI-based computers, including Intel Macs. If you happen to be reinstalling OS X anyway, you can use Disk Utility from within the Mac OS X Installer (in the Utilities menu) to partition the disk, manually creating a Mac OS Extended partition for OS X and deliberately leaving some space as unformatted. We’ll fix this from the Ubuntu side later. Um, great, but we actually want free space. Now Boot Camp Assistant very helpfully formatted the partition as FAT32. Once you’ve clicked Partition, simply choose Quit and Install Later, as we won’t actually be installing Windows. The space that you allocate to ‘Windows’ in this screen will, obviously, be the space that Ubuntu will occupy, so give yourself as much space as you think you will need. Using Boot Camp Assistantĭespite being designed for dual booting Windows and Mac OS X, Boot Camp Assistant is very useful to us as it automatically repartitions the hard drive on the fly, without deleting any of your data. Unless you’re reinstalling Mac OS X from scratch anyway, it is probably a better idea to use the Boot Camp method, as you don’t have to delete everything to do so. There are essentially two ways to achieve this. The first step is to make enough free space on your disk for Ubuntu to exist within. Once you are completely confident that you could restore the entire system in a snap, or are convinced that you don’t care about anything on the machine, go ahead and continue with this tutorial. A Time Machine backup should be fine, as long as you don’t forget to also backup the exceptions to your Time Machine backup separately if you don’t want to lose them. Anything you care about must be kept somewhere else as well, just in case this process goes wrong. After a little fiddle with the audio volume levels.īefore you do anything, make a full backup of your system.Support for the WiFi chip used in the MacBook is built right into recent revisions of the Linux kernel.The newer NVIDIA 9400M-based MacBooks will require the installation of the NVIDIA proprietary driver for full graphics support.Intel GMA 950 and Intel GMA X1300 integrated graphics have open source drivers, so everything ‘just works’ out of the box, including desktop effects.Many bits and pieces of the MacBook hardware work out of the box, including: Why?īecause the MacBook is a really nice piece of hardware. I will be installing Ubuntu 8.10 on a late 2006 white MacBook, so this guide may be somewhat specific to the white MacBook, but should be fairly similar on most Intel Macs. Run Ubuntu installer (setting GRUB boot loader location).We can divide the installation process into these major steps: So let’s take a look at the steps involved, before we dive in. This tutorial is inspired and somewhat derived from the Ubuntu Mactel Community Documentation, as well as my own experience of this process. Various differences in the hardware, particularly the use of the EFI firmware system, mean that some extra effort is required to get your favourite distro up and running on your favourite hardware. 21H1, macOS 11.Installing Ubuntu (or any other Linux) on a Macintosh is a slightly different process than installing Ubuntu on a more traditional PC. We now support Ubuntu on Windows 10 using the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Your computer will need to use, Apple’s OS X operating system (from at least 2010), Windows 10, or a variant of Linux such as Debian or Ubuntu. You will need access to a computer (not a tablet or chromebook) with strong internet connection as well as a webcam and microphone.