The core problem with the installation is this.
If full graphics performance is desired, a "Legacy BIOS Install" is needed.įrom the forum post that the commenter cites, which is concerned with a MacBook Air 3,2: A helpful commenter, Brian Moran, writes that, when installing Ubuntu on an older Mac with a NVIDIA graphics card, it may be better to "boot in 'Legacy BIOS mode', not in 'EFI' mode":Īpparently what is happening is that both the open source and Nvidia drivers are buggy when doing an "EFI Install" on Mac machines. UPDATE (February 2017): Before moving ahead, you may want to consider the following. Furthermore I think all the data I had on my USB stick is lost due to it being formatted in a certain way at some point in the procedure. There are ways to dual-boot both, but I wasn't interested in that as Mavericks was running super slow on this computer. For example I believe I had to do steps 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 11 only because I have a MBP with an Intel chip.Īlso, WARNING, this procedure completely wiped my OS X and all the files and applications on that installation, as I intended. I believe I bought it in the summer of 2009.Īgain, note, this worked for me and my machine but may not for you. Note that I didn't want to partition my hard drive to allow myself to dual-boot either in OS X or Ubuntu- I was going for a full replacement, and thus would and did lose all the files on applications I had on the old Mac.īut regardless, here is the process I took. I now realize, I think, that the reason the process of installing even a popular Linux distribution on a common (if old) model computer isn't written out or easily findable is that the process is a bit different for everyone, depending on the distro, the version, and the hardware you're starting with.
I also, confusingly, hadn't found a clean, step-by-step guide for doing this, so I promised I'd write my process out as thoroughly but simply as I could once I got it done.
I had never installed or even used Linux before (to my knowledge). I had an old 17-inch MacBook Pro from 2009 (college) lying around and I figured it'd be a fun challenge to install Linux on it.
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