It is often difficult to change once you’ve decided. Be sure about how much space you want to give it. Once you do that click on the Partitioning tab and use the slider or text entry to decide how much storage you want to give Ubuntu. Open the folder you have the Ubuntu download in (most likely the downloads directory under your home directory), now that you have disk Utility open drag the downloaded Ubuntu file to the left pane in the Disk Utility application.įrom Disk Utility, select the harddrive you want to put Ubuntu on (if you don’t know, there will probably only be one option available anyway) in the top section on the left dock. (Even if you’re using a macbook, you will be downloading Ubuntu Desktop)įrom Mac OS X, Applications -> Utilities -> Disk utility The solution is rEFIt, a bootloader you can use on for mac. GRUB, the default bootloader for Ubuntu, is unable to boot Mac OS X. So pull out that pendrive and back up those files that you care for the most.Ī bootloader (as far as we’re concerned) is software used to allow you to select and boot an operating system. This may seem really obvious, but just in case you forget, you should back up those files which are important to you just in case you mess up. Now, (what you’re most likely reading this post for) how to install Ubuntu: A burnable CD or DVD that can hold at ~700MB (This may be a different size in the future from the time on posting) at least to burn Ubuntu to.Free Space for Files in order to have room for Ubuntu.Temporary wired internet connection (if it’s a macbook) in order to download drivers (magic bananas that allow you to use different hardware) for your wireless card (Once you successfully install Ubuntu, you wont need to anymore).Intel Mac, it may or may not work on a PowerPC mac, but I’m not sure.So you don’t waste your time reading, here are some requirements: This was tested on my personal 2006 macbook and while I wont promise you that it should work.
Ubuntu 12.10 is the current release at the time of posting as well as the one I installed.
I’ll be going over installing Ubuntu alongside OS X.
First of all, this is my first real post as well as my first tutorial.
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