#Install linux on mac mini core duo mac os#
#Install linux on mac mini core duo no cd#

The standard version meaning a 32bit version. If you have a Core2 Duo Mac (as oppossed to the Core Duo), it is capable of using the AMD64 (64bit) CD otherwise you have to use the standard version. However since your iMac is a Core Duo it will need a 32bit Ubuntu as noted on Ubuntu's Mac Community documentation.

Since your iMac is an intel one, you can use a standard Ubuntu ISO built for any x86 PC. Ubuntu for Intel Macs and additionally the Ubuntu Intel Mac CommunityHelpPages looks to be loaded with lots of resources that you might find helpful. You should checkout a Ubuntu instructions for Intel Macs, so no need to worry about a BIOS your running EFI. Looks like you have all you will need already, you were just missing the following bits of information.

#Install linux on mac mini core duo mac os#

So I ask, what would you do? The only thing is it should not involve any money (I know Mac software is rarely free) which also excludes getting any Mac OS unless I can use a free macos.img for VM or restore the original Mac for free. So other than finding someone that has a Mac I have no solution.Which makes me think that the scenario where someone like me has Mac hardware but no Mac OS is extremely rare. I can't find much software on Linux/Windows to substitute to those tools, for example among others converting an.So assuming blindly that the Mac hardware/firmware works normally, I don't have any Mac OS to use any of the tools that I found on different tutorials for building a bootable drive for Macs.When I start the machine and press Option, the first and only thing I see is an old corrupted Windows XP partition and not a single option or additional information. There is no BIOS on Macs, so I can't set boot settings or even see if it detects my USB drive.

#Install linux on mac mini core duo no cd#

No CD means the only boot drive I could use is USB.

This PC with Ubuntu 12.04 and an old Windows Vista partition.An empty PC (17' Intel iMac) with broken CD drive.