[wplug] linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

[Dave Sevick]

Brian, John,

When using Linux on an Intel Mac .... we typically start by formatting  the HD with Apple's Disk Utility Mac OS Extended (journaled) with the Option for the drive partition table as GUID for Intel Macs.

Then we use Virtualbox https://www.virtualbox.org (free) or VMware, Parallels (commercial)  to run in a VM.

Need to have as much RAM as possible .... but it does work well.

Dave 


> On Nov 21, 2014, at 5:27 AM, John Lewis <oflameo2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You can try the instructions in this blog post, but I doubt it would
> help http://www.sowerbutts.com/linux-mac-mini/.
> 
> On 11/20/2014 08:30 PM, Brian Sammon wrote:
>> So, I got one of the Pgh Filmmakers Mac Minis (with a wiped hard drive), and now I'm trying to get OSX installed on it.
>> But it seems like every set of instructions I read has "Boot into Mac OSX" as one of the steps.
>> Anyone have any idea/tips on how to get Linux installed without installing/buying MacOSX first?
>> Is it easier if I just install linux to a thumbdrive and boot from USB every time?
>> 
>> I tried installing debian--it booted from the CD just fine, and it told me it had completed the install and installed a bootloader successfully, but it didn't boot from the hard drive afterwards.
>> 
>> Some subtasks that seem like they might be necessary and might require OSX:
>>  Checking/upgrading my firmware version
>>  "Blessing" a partition
>>  Installing rEFIt or rEFInd
>> 
>> I'm looking into http://www.puredarwin.org/
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