- Tecmint how to install linux on usb drive mac osx#
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- Tecmint how to install linux on usb drive iso#
- Tecmint how to install linux on usb drive zip#
Then select the partition, Partition > Manage Flags, check "esp" and "boot" and close Partition > New, New size : 200 MiB, primary partition, partition name : EFI, filesystem: FAT32, Label: EFI, Add, then click the arrow Apply All Operations. make a small EFI partition at the start of the drive, this can be handy for future : reformat the disk: Device > Create Partition Table > choose gpt, apply launch gparted (Menu > Administration > GParted), and select the external drive in the right drop-down list (be sure this is not the internal one, which you can recognise with the macOS partitions) You should get to the live Mint that you are used to. Choose one of the entry mentioning EFI or efi. One may be called "boot legacy bootloader" (or something like that), one something like "boot fallback bootloader from EFI", one may refer to grub圆4.efi, or shim圆4.efi. At the refind screen, you should see one or more new options (up to 3).
Tecmint how to install linux on usb drive iso#
You will not need the option trick ever again.īurn the Mint ISO to the flash drive. Good, now you have a powerful graphical boot manager that will allow you to boot both macOS and Linux (and windows if you wanted to). It should (in case it doesnt, reboot pressing option, select macOS, the go to System Preferences > Startup Disk and you can redefine macOS to boot by default)
Just launch the normal macOS entry and check it works. There should be an option to boot macOS you may also have an option to boot the recovery partition (if you have one), and if you press F2 on the macOS entry you will see several handy boot options. Shutdown and reboot, and you should get to the refind screen, which you can navigate with the arrow keys and press enter to select an option.
Tecmint how to install linux on usb drive zip#
Start from macOS, download refind here (link "a binary zip file"), and follow installation instruction from here (basically unzip the download, open a terminal and drag and drop refind-install.sh into it). it allows to easily boot in verbose mode, single user mode, launch the apple hardware test if present.). Refind goes very well with Macs in fact, and has several features useful for macOS (e.g. I suggest you take this as an advantage, and take the occasion to use an alternative bootloader, refind, instead of the old-fashioned grub that linux traditionally installs. (even if you point to the external drive in "device for boot loader installation", it disregards it) When installing to an external hard drive, it tends to put the bootloader on the internal drive instead of the external one. One thing in your case is that the Mint installer has a small bug that will pop up in your case : Typically a few hours with traditional hard drives, much faster with SSD) (be patient, the procedure of cloning does take some time. That way you can clone back, and get back your system if anything goes wrong. Use that to clone the internal drive with macOS to a spare hard drive.
Tecmint how to install linux on usb drive trial#
There is an app called Carbon Copy Cloner (if I remember you can get a free trial for 14 days or something like that, enough to do your procedure) which allows to fully clone your hard drive to another one.
There are (plenty of) Linux tools to do this, but I assume you may be more familiar with macOS.
Tecmint how to install linux on usb drive full#
Since you say you are new to Linux, and because the stuff you want to do can go wrong if you make a mistake, I highly suggest making a full backup of your macOS system before anything. It's like pulling your own shoes to lift you up The problem you are encountering is because you are trying to install on the same disk you are booted from.
You normally also do not need to format the drive, just use Etcher and it will do the formatting. A 4GB flash drive is sufficient (maybe even 2GB is enough). You do not need a whole external hard drive to make a live USB. I am not much of a Linux techie so please make your reply easy to follow. I assume that after a correct installation I shall be able to boot the full MintOS by holding the "Option" key and shall be able to save all changes when I log out of each session. Please correct this from the partitioning menu", then I just quit the installation. I successfully complete all the steps including selecting my 500gb drive as the destination drive, then when I click on "Install" get a message saying " No root file system is defined. Now I want to permanently install Mint 19.1 to this same 500gb external hard drive because I want to save the changes I make after each session.
This live USB loads perfectly by using the Option Key on my iMac.
Tecmint how to install linux on usb drive mac osx#
I made a live USB of Mint 19.1 using Etcher on a 500gb External Hard Drive with a format of MS-DOS FAT using Disk Utility to format on my mac running Mac OSX Yosemite. I am new to Linux Mint, am very anxious to make it another OS.
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