I used this method to install Linux Mint 17.2 to my old Macbook Pro 1,1 (circa 2006 hardware). You can also try using the boot loader called "rEFInd" to assist in booting to a USB or CD live install created from an "ISO" distribution. If there is a recommended website somewhere that steps through all this, I'd be happy to be pointed in that direction.Ĭlem Lefebvre himself, the founder of Linux Mint, has a tutorial on this at the following link: My a priori guess is that Apple has done a few things to prevent you from doing this sort of thing easily (heaven for fend you'd want something other than OS/X), if at all. Now, I'm guessing that since this particular laptop has a bit of glowing fruit on it (i.e., it comes from Apple), things won't be quite so simple (especially since I'm not downloading Mint through iTunes.
This is generally a near-trivial thing to do. I routinely do this with my old Windows-based laptops that were getting a bit long in the tooth (I think I have 4 such machines at present - blew away Windows, and now they're Mint-only machines). This particular laptop is so old that I'd like to 'refresh it into something useful' by putting Mint (or any other distro) on it. I've found a number of sites that step through setting things up for a 'dual boot', but I have no interest in seeing OS/X again. So, what I'm interested in doing is (1) blowing away OS/X, and (2) installing Mint. Machine has 2 GHz Intel Core Duo (32-bit). So, I inherited an older MacBook Pro - running OS/X 10.6.8 ('Snow Leopard').
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