Hope this helps the three other people doing this within the next ten years. This took me three days of pain and agony and searching to find out how to do it. I’ve quoted his answer below: Okay, here’s an answer from 2018, that actually works (I did it on a 2,1 Mac Mini Late 2007). I found this post on where user Spades gave a pretty good outline on what to do. When I used it, the bootable USB keys couldn’t be booted up or read on Mac OSX. I didn’t really want to install things on my Mac Mini in case in the future, I want to install another operating system. A lot of the websites I found required that I make the bootable USB from the Mac Mini or on a Windows machine. So off I went to the internet for some research. Of course, this wouldn’t work (I already tried). On a regular pc, you would just make a bootable usb, plug it in, and just install Ubuntu 18.04. Internet ResearchĪpple computers always have a funny way of booting.

Due to the age of the hardware, I decided to go with a variant called Bodhi Linux which is designed to work with older computers. So decided to change the OS to Ubuntu 18.04. Since the Mac Mini is quite old and Apple dropped support for it in 2016, I can’t really get new versions of software.

You can get a list of specs on Every Mac: The size is just right for the use of a home entertainment machine with a built in DVD player. It was the cheapest type of Mac at the time and it’s been a great machine.

I used it to try iPhone App development back in the day.

I have an old Mac Mini lying around the house.

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