#LINUX MINT FOR APPLE INSTAL DRIVERS#

Booted installation media in compatibility mode (as it avoided using fancier video/wifi/apci drivers that seemed to have inconsistent results from live cd/usb distro to distro) Created Linux Mint installation DVD (I've also had success with a USB created using RUFUS from Windows Box)

Linux Mint 19.2 is running fine on my 2008 iMac 8,1 2GB. This is a bit of a cross post from a more active thread on a different site, but I thought i'd put it here too. Someone else may be able to follow the video all the way through. I used the video tips for installing REFINED and disabling SIP, then used the MAC Linux USB Loader tool for the rest. On my particular Mac Linux is SO much snappier than OS X El Capitan was.īelow is a link to a video I used to get me started. The current tool has a few distros it can download and prepare automatically, including Zorin, Ubuntu and Mint 17.3, but you can also start the process with the tool and during step 2 of the process point it to an iso you downloaded. Fortunately I found a tool (Mac Linux USB Loader) that helped me finish the job. I started off following a youtube tutorial but about half way through it the commands he was running was bombing for me. Getting Linux on it was a bear but worth the trouble. I finally managed to get Linux (Mint 18) installed on my iMac. I posted this on a couple of other forums I frequent and wanted to share here.

Linux Mint for apple instal