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#Dual booting mac and linux Offline

The MBL problem was the demise of my WD My Book Live, which had to be taken offline after a recommendation to do so by Western Digital as the device was at risk to hackers and many users had, in fact, lost their data.

#Dual booting mac and linux install

Per my original post, I did manage to install Linux and it is working very well indeed. It’s not that I always prefer to do things back to front, it’s more that these things happen. I note your comments about MacOS first and Linux later. Many thanks call paul for a very comprehensive response. It’s a beautiful computer too (the iMac 2,1), I was booting Xubuntu on it from USB (using RFEind) - until the HDD started playing up… I hate landfill - so I will keep it… It cost me nothing (my sister was getting rid of it to move to the UK from Australia - all she wanted me to do was make a backup of some data on there )…īut - I’ve got NO room on my desk what with a 27" + 32" + a 20" 4:3 LCD… Ideally - I’d like a single ultrawide 49" CURVED display with the same height and pixels as my 32" QHD (even the top end 49" ultrawides are still about 3" “shorter” than my 32" Lenovo)…Īnd then what I need is a monitor SHELF above my main desk monitor, to run, other, monitors… I need a WALL of monitors like some SCADA engineer in a power plant, maybe even a nuclear power plant, but 2000’s style with massive LCDs and not CRTs! the first gen intel) iMac model “iMac 2,1” I think the “2” refers to dual core… It has a coreduo (not core2duo) CPU (32 bit only), and 2 GB of RAM… I saw some youtube vid recently of someone successfully replacing the coreduo with a core2duo (to get 4 virtual CPUs’ - and 64 bit), 4 GB of RAM and replaced the HDD with an SSD… But iMacs (just like the original Macintosh 512K) are a pain in the arse to crack open - and you can probably completely forget about it with the latest iteration of the family (the 24" iMac M1 - there’s probably yellow crime scene tape on the side, and a loop of a cop saying “move along, nothing to see here…”)… Rather more reading required and I am aware that planning is all and I should know the route before I set out. If I can achieve this I will be delighted - the next stage is to install MacOS in the appropriate partition, for which I assume I need something in the boot partition to allow this. I am hoping that when partitioning has been done, I can restore these to the partitioned disc and carry on to the next stage. I have an external USB stick backup of Linux Mint OS created using Timeshift and, hopefully very soon, a backup of my data ( just over 200Gb) on an external USB disc built using grsync. I guess it would not be difficult to create a BRICK at this point. My understanding is that such partitioning is likely to erase the data and OS already on the disk although I’m not sure what happens to the boot partition, if there is one, at boot stage after partitioning. Oh dear, that’s 5 partitions already so I will need some logical partitions as well ! I still have the Mint USB stick to boot from in order to run Gparted - is that feasible?

#Dual booting mac and linux how to

My question, therefore, is how to do a re-install of the same OS with my SSD partitioned into 4 or 5 segments: When I installed Mint, I foolishly allowed the install process to Erase the disc so that I effectively just have a single partition. I downloaded Linux Mint Cinnamon 20 using Balena Etcher on my MAC laptop and, after a bit of a struggle with boot options at restart (which seemed to work sometimes but not all the time), I installed Mint and have enjoyed learning a bit about it here and there while resolving the MBL problem. With more time on my hands, a lockdown benefit, and a fairly urgent issue to resolve (more later), I am now back in the saddle.

#Dual booting mac and linux Pc

The original intention was to install Linux as I had a Ubuntu PC some years ago until we moved to a smaller house & my better half persuaded me to get rid of it.

I added a wireless mouse + keyboard combination and am very happy with the basic setup for learning how to use Linux. There is now no CD/DVD facility but there are 4 x USB2 (the slow version !) ports. It’s a lovely neat piece of kit - I think these were called all-in-one computers at one stage - and has been upgraded to 8Gb memory (the max) and has had a 500Gb SSD disc installed.

#Dual booting mac and linux mac os

I picked up a 2009 Apple iMac running Mac OS (cannot remember which version at this time) for a song through local classified adverts. I’m new here, also new to Linux but loving it so far and want to learn much more - if you can be bothered please read the attached - any comments are welcome to stimulate discussion.