Installing on a Mac - PowerBook Pro (bare Metal)

[krisomilo]

Hi  I've used Linux Lite on a PC before and like it but now want to revive a perfectly good Mac Book Pro which is way past its "sell by date" - ie I've reached the maximum version of the O/S 10.6.8 and of course nothing works.  Because it is a sound machine and I don't want to throw it away. I would like both as a fun exercise and if successful as a working machine to install and run Linux.  One way (obviously) is to do a fresh OSX install and then run Parallels or Virtual Box but my preferred option is try to install Linux as the sole O/S on the machine.  I cannot find - but maybe haven't looked hard enough - any guidance.  So my question is does anyone have the experience? Be really glad to have any guidance that anyone can offer.  The PB is a 17" running an Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.33Ghz - I think the processor is a 64-bit but that Apple have restricted it (EFI / Boot) to 32-bit.  What I want to try to achieve is to download and burn a bootable Linux Installer to use on the PB.  Thanks Kris.

[bitsnpcs]

Hello krisomilo,

Jerry has experience of installing LL on Apple -

https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/on-to...u-di'int!/

[trinidad]

Not a MAC guy myself but Your OS is 64bit on a core2 duo. The EFI partition is 32bit which is normal. Someone here may have the proper way to do this on a MAC, or google around on using MBR partitions on a MAC.

TC

[valtam]

Please list the exact model from here - https://everymac.com/