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Wifi doesn’t work out of the box, so from another computer (or your OSX install) download the driver and its dependencies (dkms, libc6-dev, linux-libc-dev), then copy them all to a flash drive and boot back into Ubuntu.EFI-Booting Ubuntu on a Mac EFI-Booting Ubuntu on a Mac by Rod Smith, written: 1/2011 Last Web page update: (last major update: )

Ubuntu for mac pro install#

Note that the wifi won’t work (we’ll fix this in the next step), so don’t try to install updates during the installation process, unless you have a separate usb wifi dongle or ethernet.

Once it boots to the Ubuntu Desktop Open the “Install Ubuntu” icon and follow the installation instructions.

Select “Try Ubuntu” (not “Install Ubuntu”) from the menu.

Insert the USB, and hold ‘option’ key while booting.

Download the Ubuntu 17.10 ISO, and create a bootable USB drive.

There are plenty of guides, if you get stuck on this step, including the Ubuntu wiki. You’ll want to leave the empty space as “free space” (it will get formatted during the Ubuntu installation).

Just open Disk Utility in OSX, and resize your existing OSX partition, so that there’s some free space for Ubuntu.

It continues to simplify the installation process, and seems quite stable so far.

Ubuntu for mac pro pro#

I did a fresh install of 17.10 on my Macbook Pro Retina mid-2012 (rMBP 10,1). I skipped 17.04, since it didn’t seem to add much that I was excited about, but 17.10 has switched from Unity back to Gnome3, so I wanted to give it a try.