Why not take this opportunity to show all of you how to do this while I’m at it. While I know I won’t do too much gaming on it, I should still be able to do everything I want to do, and that is enough.
My goal is to install Ubuntu on a Mac to create a Linux laptop for me to be able to use around my home that I can use easily for both work and play. Why not take this aging MacBook that is probably already on borrowed time given Apple’s strict retirement policies as it pertains to hardware and give it new life with one of my favorite operating systems – Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu-13.04-server-armhf+Īpache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) Server at, I have this MacBook that is approaching four years old, but I find that I’m not really using it these days. Ubuntu-13.04-preinstalled-desktop-armhf+.zsync Ubuntu-13.04-preinstalled-desktop-armhf+nexus7.bootimg Ubuntu-13.04-desktop-armhf+omap4.manifest If you need help burning these images to disk, see the Image Burning Guide or the USB Image Writing Guide.
See ARM/OMAP for detailed installation information.įor ARM hardware for which we do not ship preinstalled images, see ARM/Server/Install for detailed installation information.Ī full list of available files, including BitTorrent files, can be found below. There is one image available: Texas Instruments OMAP4 (Hard-Float) server install image For OMAP4 boards. This image is adjusted to work properly on Mac systems. If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the Intel x86 images instead. 64-bit Mac (AMD64) server install image Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2).
64-bit PC (AMD64) server install image Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. There are three images available, each for a different type of computer: PC (Intel x86) server install image For almost all PCs.
It will not install a graphical user interface.
The server install image allows you to install Ubuntu permanently on a computer for use as a server. 64-bit Mac (AMD64) desktop image Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). 64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop image Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). There are three images available, each for a different type of computer: PC (Intel x86) desktop image For almost all PCs. You will need at least 384MiB of RAM to install from this image. This type of image is what most people will want to use.
The desktop image allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. Ubuntu is distributed on two types of images described below.