If you wish to install it to hard disk, double-click the Install Linux Mint icon in the Desktop. You have to always and keep the USB plugged in to run Live USB Linux. The Mac should boot into Linux running on USB stick.īasically you can run the Ubuntu / LinuxMint / Elementary OS just from Linux. If there are two EFI boot disks just select one of them. Press and hold Option key while booting to go to Mac boot menu.
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To make it easier I have created a video on how to create Ubuntu / LinuxMint bootable USB stick on OS X Restart the MacBook to boot on USB stickĪfter successfully create the bootable USB stick, it is time to boot the Macbook to USB stick. Ubuntu website already provides how to create a bootable USB stick on OS X on this page. We will install the Linux operating system using a USB stick. Create Ubuntu / LinuxMint bootable USB Stick Installer for Macbook To make it easier, I have created a video how to partition the disk on OS X El Capitan. We can change to EXT4 Linux file system format later in the installation stage. Create around 50GB of disk space for Linux. We can use Disk Utility to partition our disk. This method should also be applicable for Ubuntu 15.10 and Elementary OS 0.3.2 Freya. This post will show you how to install LinuxMint 17.3 on MacBook Pro dual-boot with OS X El Capitan. Several popular Linux operating systems for desktop are Ubuntu, LinuxMint and Elementary OS. More and more Linux operating system becomes popular especially for geeks, system administrators or developers.
Its desktop does a pretty spot-on Windows. Most versions of Linux employ a familiar graphical user interface (UI), but Zorin OS goes a step further.
The Windows (and Mac!) lookalike: Zorin OS.
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